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The Resurrectionist: James Bradley

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Synopsis:

What should I have said to her? That this life is so thin, so small, it might be lost in a moment without thought? That the worst prisons that we build are not of stone, but of our own making? That nothing done may ever truly be undone?

Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives in London to study with Edwin Poll, greatest of the city's anatomists. It is 1826. And the chance presents itself for Gabriel to find advancement and make a name for himself.

But soon he finds himself tricked and 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 descends into a hell partly of his own making and the violence of the London underworld. Here, he discovers a place where everything and everyone is for sale - a place where the taking of a life is easier than it might seem.

A chilling and compelling gothic thriller and a story of a love unfulfilled, The Resurrectionist is both a powerful and graphic evocation of London in the early nineteenth century, and a personal story about the brutalising effects of a world with intangible moral boundaries.

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Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

London

Genres & Themes:

Disappearance; Gothic; Grave Robbing; Love; Villains

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