num_pages: 320
description: Early eighteenth-century London, and two doctors are crisscrossing the boundaries of morality in the heady pursuit of scientific progress. This challenge leads Sir Edmund Calcraft, an eminent and notorious anatomist, and Joseph Bendix, his ambitious young student, into playing a dark game with the lawless side of English society. But Bendix’s growing passion for a woman he first glimpses in Calcraft’s house threatens to end their mutual quest.From gallows to madhouses, from anatomical laboratories to a Frost Fair set on the frozen Thames, the two men compete in both head and heart. Mixing history, medical lore, and myth, The House of Sight and Shadow is a compelling tale about ambition, deception, and the fallibility of both love and reason.
language: English
title: The House of Sight and Shadow: A Novel
titlecomplete: The House of Sight and Shadow: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Romance, British Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 204
places: London, England
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks