Danielle Giles - Gentle Things | Wednesday 16 September, 7.30pm
Danielle Giles - Gentle Things | Wednesday 16 September, 7.30pm
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After first coming to Collected with her debut novel Mere (which has consistently sat amongst our bestsellers ever since), we are so excited that Danielle Giles is returning to us with Gentle Things - her second novel, a dark, disturbing, and affecting tale of medicine, marriage, and madness, set in Restoration-era London.
Chaired by Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb.
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London, 1668. Though the streets hum with promise following the restoration of the crown, Lucy North is trapped. Her father's recent death has left her mother saddled with debts she cannot pay. Lucy must marry the first man willing to take her without a dowry. So when she meets Thomas Ashwell, a young and charming apothecary, Lucy quickly identifies an attractive route out.
She falls in love easily, and when Thomas proposes she believes her future is finally secured. But when Lucy falls and injures her head during their wedding party, things start to warp. Confined to her bedroom her dreams refuse to leave her at daybreak, and the voice in her head no longer sounds like her own.
As Thomas plies her with tinctures and cures, a creeping fear takes root: Has this marriage saved her? Or will it bring about her end?
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Photo credit: Harry Grunfeld
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