Church of Marvels

by Leslie Parry

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'A SKILLFUL TRIUMPH' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist - 'IRRESISTIBLE' Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room

New York, 1895. It's late on a warm city night when Sylvan Threadgill, a young night soiler who cleans out the privies behind the tenement houses, pulls a terrible secret out from the filthy hollows: an abandoned newborn baby. An orphan himself, Sylvan was raised by a kindly Italian family and can't bring himself to leave the baby in the slop. He tucks her into his chest, resolving to find out where she belongs.

Odile Church is the girl-on-the-wheel, a...

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  • ISBN10 1473605628
  • ISBN13 9781473605626
  • Publish Date 4 June 2015 (first published 5 May 2015)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 March 2017
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Murray Press
  • Imprint Two Roads
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English