Pandora
The #1 Sunday Times bestselling historical novel set in Georgian London inspired by Greek mythology.
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Dora Blake’s life has been confined to her family's antiquities shop in Georgian London until a mysterious Greek treasure threatens to expose deadly secrets.
When an unusual ancient Greek vase arrives at her overbearing uncle’s antiquities business, Dora joins forces with Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar to investigate it. Together, they uncover family secrets that have Dora questioning everything she has believed about her life and the world as she knows it.
Blending Georgian historical fiction with Gothic mystery and the myth of Pandora's box, Pandora unfolds across winter streets, docklands, and Mayfair drawing rooms as Dora fights to reclaim her future.
'A gripping narrative in which secrets from the past are slowly and ingeniously revealed' Sunday Times
'Romantic, suspenseful and beautifully written... a glorious treat' Daily Mail
'Weaves together Ancient Greek myth with suspenseful mystery and beguiling romance...utterly irresistible' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
'An immersive, evocative story full of romance and intrigue' Red
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A true page-turner, Susan Stokes-Chapman’s debut novel combines mystery, myth and an engrossing portrayal of Georgian London, plus a shot of romance. Its heroine—orphaned young and raised in her family’s antiquities shop by an uncle who treats her as a nuisance, at best—has an ambition, frustrated though it may be, to forge a career as a jewellery designer. This, she hopes, will allow her to support herself. But when her uncle acquires an intriguing, perhaps even powerful artefact and insists on hiding it from her, it becomes clear that he has long been keeping secrets. The intrigue rises as she pursues answers with the help of a young man who has his own interest in the artefact, and the story is skilfully inflected with the myth of Pandora, with whom she shares her name. In the company of a protagonist who is allowed to be both vulnerable and formidable, we were rapt.
