Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives in London in 1826 to study with Edwin Poll, the great anatomist. But he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and governor of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Poll, Gabriel is pulled into the sinister and mysterious underworld of Georgian London - and must make a journey that will change his life forever.

Unlike my previous read, there is nothing cosy about this book. It is gothic and gruesome and with my squeamish nature I had to read it in short burst but I HAD to read it. I must be getting better at coping with these sorts of books as I don't give up so easily now.

This is now on bookmooch.

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This book has been mooched and is on its way to Katherine in the USA.