Visit the locations in the novel

Soot, debauchery and talk of changelings .... a journey back in time to 1667 London grab you? It should as it's fine fine fine!

Have a wet wipe to hand when you read this book as you’ll need to wipe yourself clean from all the stench and soot of London to come from its pages. I haven’t felt so immersed and in need of a wash after reading a novel in a long time and I mean that as a lovely complement! London is the den of debauchery and even those not in the opium dens or the whorehouses have to trudge the gritty, dirty streets to try and make a living, if not even just to survive.

Now that’s not all. This novel is the fourth in a series but I haven’t read the others and I didn’t feel I was missing out until the end of the book when I wondered why I hadn’t read the rest of this heart-pumping series. The theatre world was just fascinating and jaw-dropping both in detail and fantasy. There were threads of a magical and supernatural presence, which, for me, took the novel to an even better place. These illegal theatres just gave me a thrill reading about them and stepping inside, experiencing a world that the author has crafted with care and a mean glint in her eye.

If you love historical fiction, you’ll get goosebumps. If you don’t, you’ll get goosebumps and a new genre to get stuck into. The changeling murders is fascinating, wonderfully evoked and I haven’t even touched upon the changelings themselves…the fairy folk….now that really is something you have to discover for yourself, or is it that they will discover you?