Edith Holler, A Novel

Edith Holler, A Novel
Authors
Edward Carey
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Date
2023-10-31
Size
12.20 MB
Lang
en
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The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouseand the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survivalThe year is 1901. Englands beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her own: a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy known as Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar, imposing woman named Margaret Unthank, heir to the actual Beetle Spread fortune, Edith scrambles to protect her...