Doll Factory

The Doll Factory Book Description London, 1850. Iris and Silas meet by chance among the crowds coming to see the spectacular Great Exhibition building being built in Hyde Park. This moment of meeting has no significance for the beautiful and talented Iris, who dreams of becoming a painter; He brushes Silas off and forgets about it the moment he turns his back. But this encounter is a sign of a brand new beginning for the stuffed animal master Silas, who cannot resist the magic of the creatures he finds strange and beautiful. When a young and attractive painter named Louis Frost asks Iris to model for a painting, Iris tells him that she can only accept this offer in exchange for painting lessons, and she suddenly finds herself in a dazzling world full of art and love that she could not have seen even in her wildest dreams. But he is unaware of the eyes watching him from the shadows. Since the day they met by chance, there is only one thing that has been going around in Silas's dark mind, and his obsession is deepening day by day. “A story of love, art and obsession with sharp, terrible and magnificent connotations.” Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “A story to be read by candlelight, with fantastic shadows casting fantastic shadows on the walls: doves and skulls, crinolines and canes, irises, roses and knives…” AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window “Enchantingly strange and spooky… The magic of storytelling.” The Washington Post (From the Promotional Bulletin)