Sleep Pale Sister

Readers of Kate Atkinson Kate Mosse Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this powerful atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Death love obsession sex murder and magic combine to make a compelling and haunting read...'A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel' -- Time Out'A very compulsive read' -- ***** Reader review'Tremendous' -- ***** Reader review 'Real gothic page turner' -- ***** Reader review'A truly dark ghostly and powerful read' -- ***** Reader review'The tension is gripping and kept going to the very end. I read it in one sitting!' -- ***** Reader review**********************************************************************************************************Henry Chester a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.Ten years later lovely childlike and sedated Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution murder and blackmail she must finally plan her revenge...