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""Remarkable...for fans of fantasy-inflected historicals such as Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent."" --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review ""A sumptuous reading experience."" --BookPage It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a ""fallen angel"" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . . The Gifts is an astonishing novel, a spellbinding tale told through five different perspectives and set against the luminous backdrop of nineteenth century London, it explores science, nature and religion, enlightenment, the role of women in society and the dark danger of ambition.

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"""Fierce and touching, this extremely compelling novel follows its female protagonists through 19th century London where a surgeon struggles with the dark lure of scientific ambition while his marriage crumbles, a journalist pursues the mystery of the angel fished from the Thames and two young women find themselves inexplicably transformed in the depths of despair. Beautiful and riveting."" -- Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne ""Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it."" -- Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars ""I devoured The Gifts, eager to find out the fate of its wonderfully drawn characters. A wonderful, atmospheric book that immersed me in the dirty streets of nineteenth century London and swept me away to the hills of Shropshire. A real gem."" -- Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets"

Fierce and touching, this extremely compelling novel follows its female protagonists through 19th century London where a surgeon struggles with the dark lure of scientific ambition while his marriage crumbles, a journalist pursues the mystery of the angel fished from the Thames and two young women find themselves inexplicably transformed in the depths of despair. Beautiful and riveting. -- Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it. -- Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars I devoured The Gifts, eager to find out the fate of its wonderfully drawn characters. A wonderful, atmospheric book that immersed me in the dirty streets of nineteenth century London and swept me away to the hills of Shropshire. A real gem. -- Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets

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LIZ HYDER is a writer and creative workshop leader. She has been part of Writing West Midlands's Room 204 writer development programme since 2016. In early 2018, she won The Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer Award. Named The Times Children's Book of the Year in 2019, her debut, Bearmouth, was also the Waterstones Children's Book for Older Readers 2020 and the winner of the Branford Boase Award 2020. It has also been shortlisted for the UKLA Awards and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021. Originally from London, she now lives in South Shropshire in a small medieval market town surrounded by hills, books and plants. The Gifts is her adult debut.

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