" The Doll Factory is one of the best books I've read in ages - heartbreaking and evocative. I loved its warmth, it's wry humour, and the way each small thread leads into an unbearably tense and chilling denouement that had me totally gripped" Sophie Mackintosh, Man Booker Prize longlisted author of The Water Cure At every turn expectations are confounded - it's a historical novel and yet feels incredibly relevant and timely. "A stunning novel that twines together power, art, and obsession.
Elizabeth Macneal has created that rare thing: a beautifully researched historical novel with a plot to stop your heart." Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People "This brilliant literary thriller gripped me from the opening page and didn't relinquish its hold until I'd read the final sentence. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.īut Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. "A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession" Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
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