Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment by Madeleine Pelling #literature A quality gift book

A quality gift book

THE HORROR STEEPED IN PAGAN FOLKLORE AND A SAPPHIC ROMANCE SET IN A POST-APOCOLYPTIC WORLD FULL OF HUNGRY ELDRITCH CREATURES

finds herself unable to write

a nervous breakdown and suicide attempts

Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment by Madeleine Pelling #literature A quality gift bookHere lies Fanny Lynes, whose whispers from beyond the grave set London alight with scandal. Here swings Mary Bateman, who lived a life of lies and died a prophetess and murderer. Here stands Mary Willcocks. Or is it Anne Burgess? Or Princess Caraboo, from the distant island of Javasu? A ghost. A witch. A princess. This is a story of those who lie. And of those who choose to believe them. The discoveries of the Enlightenment unsettled as much as they