Description

A dazzling mixture of crime, romance, magic and myth from the author of the best-selling The Psychology of Time Travel. The Kendrick family have been making world-famous dolls for over 200 years. But their dolls aren’t coveted for the craftsmanship alone. Each one has a specific emotion laid on it by its creator. A magic that can make you feel bucolic bliss or consuming paranoia at a single touch. Though founded by sisters, now only men may know the secrets of the workshop.

Persephone Kendrick longs to break tradition and learn her ancestors’ craft, and when a handsome stranger arrives claiming doll-making talent and blood ties to the family, she sees a chance to grasp all she desires. But then, one night, the firm’s most valuable doll is stolen. Only someone with knowledge of magic could have taken her. Only a Kendrick could have committed this crime…

Praise for Kate Mascarenhas:

‘Witty, inventive and unflashily wise about human hearts; Mascarenhas’s future promises to be an exciting one’ GUARDIAN

‘Breathtakingly tender and wryly understated’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Captivating, delightful and thoroughly original’ JENNIE MELAMED