Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

''A gripping adventure story . . . I loved it'' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters ''Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours'' - Emilia Hart, author of Weyward London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. ''A tragic accident'', the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn''t right. When she finds Constance''s journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers - and deliver justice for her sister - Maude must step into London''s dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men. The kind of men who seek their fortune in the city''s horrors, from the hangings at Newgate to the ghoulish waxworks of Madame Tussaud''s. It is a perilous task. But Maude has dangerous skills of her own . . . ''Rip-roaring and guillotine sharp - I couldn''t tear myself away'' - Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club

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Lizzie Pook is an author and award-winning journalist and travel writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Condé Nast Traveller and more. Her first novel, Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter, was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is her second novel. She lives in London.

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An exciting and pacey story of a quest for justice in the macabre world of Victorian London, with an intrepid heroine ready to risk it all for her missing sister.

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'A gripping adventure story . . . I loved it' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters

'Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours' - Emilia Hart, author of Weyward

London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared.

Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. 'A tragic accident', the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn't right.

When she finds Constance's journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers and deliver justice for her sister Maude must step into London's dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men. The kind of men who seek their fortune in the city's horrors, from the hangings at Newgate to the ghoulish waxworks of Madame Tussaud's.

It is a perilous task. But Maude has dangerous skills of her own . . .

'Rip-roaring and guillotine sharp - I couldn't tear myself away' - Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club