- Published: 2 April 2007
- ISBN: 9780099488743
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $22.99
Kept
A Victorian Mystery
- Published: 2 April 2007
- ISBN: 9780099488743
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $22.99
Taylor] creates a vivid, kaleidoscopic world that constantly shifts before the reader's eyes
Judith Flanders, Sunday Telegraph
Taylor is utterly enthralling
Bob Monkhouse, Guardian
Intricate and vividly realised...a pin-sharp recreation of 19th-century life
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Daily Telegraph
Taylor has a lot of fun with his premise, and readers should too
Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
A gripping tale, crafted with passion, and intelligence, and an honourable addendum to the golden age of the English novel
Simon Baker, New Statesman
Taylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Greenland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own
Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
Taylor's skill ensures the book never loses its grip... Hugely enjoyable...Conan Doyle, Dickens and Wilkie Collins knew how to do it, and Taylor has learned his lesson well... A great read. It intrigues, diverts and delights. It is clever and intricate and huge fun
Susan Hill, Guardian
He has a faultless ear for the varied nuances of mid-Victorian English... [and] takes a wicked pleasure in creating a dense underlay of references, a blend of historical fact and other authors' fiction which lies beneath his narrative and occasionally erupts into it... Clever and hugely readable
Andrew Taylor, Independent
A genuinely fascinating reading experience... A pageturner of the highest order. It is a genuine mystery - not a simple whodunnit but a constant revelation of a complex and tight-knit plot
Philippa Gregory, The Times
Intricate and vividly realised
Daily Telegraph