{"product_id":"the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach-jas-treadwell-9781529347364","title":"The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Treadwell's book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tristram Shandy meets Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSFX\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Treadwell's book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAh, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question   -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means   has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why   does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden   books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the most part, though, the couple live in peace --   until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel   them from their home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse   -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious   young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the   madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to   suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child's   history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jas Treadwell","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176103870707,"sku":"9781529347364","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529347364.jpg?v=1662082258","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach-jas-treadwell-9781529347364","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}