Book description
London, 1862. A city of over three million souls, of stinking fog
and dark, winding streets. Through these streets walks the poet
Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle,
John Polidori. Without him, she cannot write, but her relationship
with him threatens to shake London itself to the ground. This
fascinating, clever novel vividly recreates the stews and slums of
Victorian London - a city of dreadful delight. But it is the history
of a hidden city, where nursery rhymes lead the adventurer through
haunted tunnels and inverted spires. And where the price of poetic
inspiration is blood.
