{"product_id":"the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach-treadwells-picaresque-adventure-is-a-virtuoso-performance-that-resonates-with-our-own-strange-times-guardian","title":"Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Treadwell's book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Treadwell's book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAh, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question   -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means   has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why   does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden   books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the most part, though, the couple live in peace --   until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel   them from their home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse   -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious   young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the   madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to   suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child's   history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39458113257555,"sku":"","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529347326.jpg?v=1764474340","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach-treadwells-picaresque-adventure-is-a-virtuoso-performance-that-resonates-with-our-own-strange-times-guardian","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}