Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and
deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue
and seduction, set in 18th-century England. When Richard Fenwick
returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an
unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in
Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously,
the extremes of human feeling: love, passion, and something much
more sinister. It becomes apparent that Gilbert desires news filled
with tales of carousing, flirtation, excess, and London's more
salacious side. But Gilbert's elaborate and manipulative
"experiments" into the workings of human behavior soon drag Richard
into a Faustian vortex of betrayal and danger where lives are
ruined and tragedy is only a step away. With echoes of Dangerous
Liaisons, Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale is an
urgent period drama that seduces the senses.
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