Sleep, Pale Sister
- Author Joanne Harris
- Narrator Steven Pacey
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 23 December 2010
- Run Time 11 hours and 55 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Horror and supernatural fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
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
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'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
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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...
Critics Review
‘A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel’
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