{"product_id":"infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach","title":"Infernal Riddle Of Thomas Peach","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Treadwell''s book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Treadwell''s book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+2\"\u003eWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003eAh, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question   -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means   has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why   does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden   books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the most part, though, the couple live in peace --   until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel   them from their home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse   -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious   young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man''s ward, now condemned to the   madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to   suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child''s   history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313228849534,"sku":"NW9781529347364","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529347364.jpg?v=1778591598","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}