‘ Grips like steel… it’s a book to make you miss your stop on the bus or the train, keep you up at night and wake you early… a formidable achievement’ Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4 The second Part of the unputdownable classic, The Quincunx, is the ideal read for fans of S.J. Life is never so easy, and cruelty, danger and disease are never far away. And a way out of debt and disaster seems to offer itself with a momentous decision, one that will shape everything: to sell the most valuable thing they own. Taking refuge with the Isbister family, they flee upon discovering a shocking dark side to their hosts.īut then their luck seems to change when they discover the hospitable Miss Quilliam. With their savings rapidly running out, and the world turning against them, John and his mother are pursued by bailiffs and forced to move. Desperate times and darker mysteries abound in this extraordinary historical thriller
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