Sleep, Pale Sister

Readers of Kate Atkinson, Kate Mosse, Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Death, love, obsession, sex, murder and magic combine to make a compelling and haunting read...

A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel -- Time Out
A very compulsive read -- ***** Reader review
Tremendous -- ***** Reader review
Real gothic page turner -- ***** Reader review
A truly dark, ghostly and powerful read -- ***** Reader review
The tension is gripping and kept going to the very end. I read it in one sitting! -- ***** Reader review
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Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.

Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.

Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution, murder and blackmail, she must finally plan her revenge...