Nocturne with Gaslamps
by Matthew Francis
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Pub Date 1 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2024
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Description
Hastings Wimbury has always dreamt of playing Hamlet, but for now he works as a theatre gas-boy. Here, he tends to a gas chandelier so powerful it creates its own weather, and limelight machines that can throw a shadow onto a wall ten miles away. When Hastings suddenly disappears, his fiancée Flora sets out to find him with the help of Cassie, her rival in love who is more preoccupied with the ghosts terrorising the streets of London. Soon total darkness is imposed upon the city, and they realise that something far more sinister is at hand…
Ladies aren't supposed to solve mysteries, but this is a matter of life and death.
Advance Praise
"Nocturnes With Gaslamps is a beguiling, hugely imaginative mystery that brings to life the gaslit world of late Victorian London. Matthew Francis' new novel takes us close to the burners and the light shows, the wonder and the danger of a newly-lit theatre scene, and the secret lives of those who hold the flames. But where there's a lamp there are shadows, and what's lurking in the darkness of the city's night is wonderfully strange. A sparkling romp that surprises and delights."—Katherine Stansfield, author of The Magpie Tree and Falling Creatures
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781915584236 |
| PRICE | US$17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 254 |
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