A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN DAILY EXPRESS, I AND IRISH INDEPENDENT
'Thrilling, mysterious, twisted' Graham Norton
'Utterly mesmerising . . . A triumph' New York Times Book Review
'Delivers chills galore' Guardian
The case of the extraordinary child . . .
London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.
Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.
A darkly comic magic realist novel set in a crime-blighted Victorian London, in which the finest female detective of the period sets out after a missing child, with improbable events set to follow. Author of "Himself" and "Hoarder".
If there was an Oscar ceremony for books, then Kidd's Victorian mystery
Things in Jars would surely sweep the board . . . Timeless . . . Knife-sharp
