![]() ![]() Not only this, there are incidents of cruelty to animals throughout the book but particularly towards the end. I mean, there are descriptions of how he does his work. But what’s not mentioned is that Silas, the ‘baddie’ of the story, is a taxidermist, a fact that would have made me avoid reading it at all. Reading the blurb from the NetGalley website, I really thought this would be my kind of book. Iris is in danger but she doesn’t know it… Iris is friends with a kind urchin called Albie, who in turn runs errands for the obsessive collector Silas. Her twin sister, Rose, disfigured by smallpox and bitter about everything, stays in the job while Iris lives a bohemian lifestyle with the (fictional) painter Louis Frost, part of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. This historical novel focuses on Iris, a young woman who leaves her awful job in a dollmaking workshop to become an artist’s model. I feel bad saying this of a debut novel which won the 2018 Caledonia Award (an international competition for unpublished novels), but my reviews are always honest, so here goes…īut I’ll tell you what it’s about first. ![]() I found this book to be disappointing and unpleasant. ![]()
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