Charles Palliser s work has been hailed as so compulsively
absorbing that reality disappears (New York Times). Since his
extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one
million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he
returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly
in The Unburied.
It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has
been sent down rusticated from Cambridge under a cloud of
suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he
finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern
English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his
sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to
circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the
leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from
vivisection to murder.
Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication
confirms Palliser s reputation as our leading contemporary
Victorian novelist (Guardian)."
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