Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. " London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier.And where the price of poetic inspiration is blood." en But it is the history of a hidden city, where nursery rhymes lead the adventurer through haunted tunnels and inverted spires. This fascinating, clever novel vividly recreates the stews and slums of Victorian London - a city of dreadful delight. Without him, she cannot write, but her relationship with him threatens to shake London itself to the ground. Through these streets walks the poet Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle, John Polidori. A city of over three million souls, of stinking fog and dark, winding streets.
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