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Clever and funny, and exquisitely disturbing, it is an utter joy.--Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Dickens is whirling enviously in his grave. . . . Read by a fire on a cold winter evening. Has everything you could want in a novel. Like the love child of Dickens and Conan Doyle, but funnier than both.--Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle. Tremendously good. The House on Vesper Sands is a Victorian supernatural tale that dresses its ingenious plot in richly immersive historical detail and handles it all with such a mischievous lightness, it's like eating haunted candy. Diabolical and delicious, this is the most enjoyable mystery I've read in years.--Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens The House on Vesper Sands is a delicious book. Somehow it manages to do a hundred marvelous things at once: Funny, eerie, tender, haunting and unsettling, smokily atmospheric and fantastically enjoyable, it's a nineteenth-century supernatural procedural mystery that is also an impassioned meditation on love and duty, loss, suffering, power and injustice. I absolutely loved it.--Helen MacDonald, author of Vesper Flights

An intriguing, unexpected gothic mashup with elements of Dorothy Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey. Clever and funny, and exquisitely disturbing, it is an utter joy.--Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Dickens is whirling enviously in his grave. . . . Read by a fire on a cold winter evening. Has everything you could want in a novel. Like the love child of Dickens and Conan Doyle, but funnier than both.--Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle. Tremendously good. The House on Vesper Sands is a Victorian supernatural tale that dresses its ingenious plot in richly immersive historical detail and handles it all with such a mischievous lightness, it's like eating haunted candy. Diabolical and delicious, this is the most enjoyable mystery I've read in years.--Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens The House on Vesper Sands is a delicious book. Somehow it manages to do a hundred marvelous things at once: Funny, eerie, tender, haunting and unsettling, smokily atmospheric and fantastically enjoyable, it's a nineteenth-century supernatural procedural mystery that is also an impassioned meditation on love and duty, loss, suffering, power and injustice. I absolutely loved it.--Helen MacDonald, author of Vesper Flights

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Paraic O'Donnell is the author of The House on Vesper Sands and The Maker of Swans. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and two children, and can usually be found in the garden.

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