THE SUNDAY Moments TOP TEN BESTSELLER – AS CONTINUE READING BBC RADIO 4

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK Membership CHOICE 2019

‘A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of like, art and obsession’

Paula Hawkins, writer of The Girl for the Train

The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is the intoxicating story of a young woman who aspires to become an artist, and the person whose obsession may destroy her world for ever.

London. 1850. The greatest spectacle the city has ever noticed is being built-in Hyde Park, and among the group watching two people satisfy. For Iris, an aspiring designer, it is the encounter of an instant – forgotten secs later, but for Silas, a collector entranced from the strange and gorgeous, that conference marks a fresh beginning.

When Iris is normally asked to model for pre-Raphaelite musician Louis Frost, she agrees on the problem that he will also show her to color. Suddenly her world begins to broaden, to become place of artwork and love.

But Silas offers only thought of a very important factor since their reaching, and his obsession is usually darkening .