Kept - Taylor, D J
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Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, KEPT is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. Ranging from the loch sides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, KEPT is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess - at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re-invention of Victorian life and passions.…mehr

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Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, KEPT is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. Ranging from the loch sides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, KEPT is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess - at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re-invention of Victorian life and passions.
Autorenporträt
D.J. Taylor's novels include English Settlement, which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass and Derby Day, both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and Kept: A Victorian Mystery. His other books include After the War: The Novel and England Since 1945, Thackeray, Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, and Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940. He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons.