![]() ![]() The sad reality that her trying to escape from the guilt of her basically murdering her father, leads her to get caught up in a much worse scenario - especially when it turns out that her father didn't die that cold night and has even stepped into the house where Velvet currently lives.Īnd who'd have thought that a girl that used to work in a steam laundry would end up meeting Arthur Conan Doyle and wearing the sort of clothes she used to clean and fix.Īt least Charlie the aspiring police detective comes to the rescue, especially when Velvet goes to him about some baby farm in Reading. But then that same girl Velvet ends up stuck in a lovers rut, caught up in a world of spiritualism and then endangered by the fraud that surrounds her present life. ![]() ![]() A young person running away from her past life to start again, that girl messing up but being given another chance and then that girl raising up in the world - it sounds great. Then in fairness I ended up staying up several more hours thinking about the plot and the meaning of the book.Īs the book is set in the start of the 1900's it's a step back in time, but somehow it still seems so modern. I stayed up past midnight finishing the book. I was utterly captivated in this book though, I picked it up the first day and read four chapters, but the next day I couldn't put it down. ![]()
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