The Doll Factory The Doll Factory

The Doll Factory

The spellbinding gothic page turner of desire and obsession

    • 4.0 • 148 Ratings
    • £4.99
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

The Burial Plot, Elizabeth Macneal's latest cat-and-mouse thriller, is available to pre-order now!

Now a major TV series with Paramount+, Sunday Times bestselling The Doll Factory is a gothic suspense story of art, obsession and delusion, set in Victorian London.

'Astounding . . . I recommend it wholeheartedly' – Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 2 Book Club


London. 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a painter who is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint.

Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into a new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition he finds he cannot forget her.

As Iris's world expands, Silas's obsession grows. And it is only a matter of time before they meet again . . .

'A sharp, scary tale of love, art and obsession' – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime


Five Star Reader Reviews:

'Breathtaking'
'I couldn't put it down'
'Spellbinding'
'I never wanted it to end'
'A plot to stop your heart'

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
2 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
SIZE
1.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Sammybabbbyyyy!!! ,

Best book of 2021

Absolutely love Ophelia, the Rossetti, Millaisand Waterhouse so reading this was always a no brainer and I absolutely couldn’t put it down. Sadly Apple Books no longer says the book is finished until you read the stuff that comes after the novel so 3 months later I finished it. Truth is I read the novel , The Doll factory over 2 nights.
Brilliant!

thebookfox ,

Keep going

This book is definitely one which builds in momentum and is worth persevering with. At first it appears to be an idealised Victorian romance but it cranks up the suspense 2/3 of the way in. I was tempted to switch off but the final third made it worth my while. If you have ever read and enjoyed The Collector by John Fowles then this is the book for you - I just wish there had been more of it.

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