The somnambulist
By: Essie Fox
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781409123316; 9781409123330; 9781409121190
Subjects: Haunted houses; Young women; Fiction; Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Description: 'Some secrets are better left buried ... ' When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels who heralds dramatic changes in the lives of all three women.