Gentle Things by Danielle Giles #foliosociety a colleague may just be

a colleague may just be called on to investigate your suspicious death

So when her parents announce they’re separating

Magda is facing death and danger

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years

Gentle Things by Danielle Giles #foliosociety a colleague may just beDATE OF RELEASE: 23 JUL 2026 London, 1668. Though the streets hum with promise following the restoration of the crown, Lucy North is trapped. She faces either working for her aunt and uncle for the rest of her life, or marrying the next man willing to take her without a dowry. She must escape. Then she meets Thomas Ashwell, a young and charming apothecary, who offers her a route out. Lucy is quick to fall in love, and when Thomas proposes she has no