num_pages: 320
description: The most beguiling debut of 2022 perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and The Binding. She is awake...Norfolk 1643. With civil war tearing England apart reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home his father is insensible felled by a stroke and their new servant is in prison facing charges of witchcraft.Thomas prides himself on being a rational modern man but as he unravels the mystery of what has happened he uncovers not a tale of superstition but something dark and ancient linked to a shipwreck years before.Something has awoken and now it will not rest.Richly researched incredibly atmospheric and deliciously unsettling The Leviathan is set in England during a time of political turbulence and religious zealotry. It is a tale of family and loyalty superstition and sacrifice but most of all it is a spellbinding story of impossible things.
language: English
title: The Leviathan
publisher: Raven Books