The Wardrobe Mistress

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<p><b>***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION***</b> <b>From the bestselling author of<i>Asylum</i>,<i>Trauma</i>and<i>Spider</i></b></p><p><b>'[W]onderfully sinister a delight you are in for a thrilling ride.'</b><b><i>Spectator</i></b></p><p><b>January 1947.</b></p><p>London is in ruins, theres nothing to eat, and its the coldest winter in living memory.</p><p>To make matters worse, Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the day, has suddenly died. His widow Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is beside herself with grief.</p><p>Then one night she discovers Griceys secret. Plunged into a dark new world, Joan realises that though fascism might hide, it never dies. Her war isnt over after all. <b></b> <b></b> <b>'A brilliant evocation of the theatrical worlds seedy glamour,<i>The Wardrobe Mistress</i>is also a moving portrait of a woman struggling to make sense of her past and imagine a future for herself.'<i>Sunday Times</i></b> <b></b> <b>'Ghosts of the theatre and the spectre of fascism haunt cold and grimy London in this atmospheric tale from a master of the grotesque.'<i>Guardian</i></b> <b></b> <b>'[A] rich and highly spiced feast of a novel, even before it reaches its classically gothic McGrath climax.'<i>Reader's Digest</i></b> <b></b> <b>[An] unnerving thriller.<i>Stylist</i></b> <b></b> <b>'McGrath has the gift, the storyteller's gift, to compel attention, so that you gaze rapt into the fire and listen to the tale unfold.'<i>Sunday Times</i></b> <b></b> <b>'McGrath is one of the age's most elegantly accomplished divers into the human psyche . . . a master writer.' John Banville</b> <b></b> <b>McGrath is that rare yet essential thing, a writer who can expose our darkest fears without making us run away from them.'<i>New Statesman</i></b></p>

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Patrick McGrath is the author of two short story collections and nine novels, including the international bestseller,<i>Asylum</i>. He is also the author of<i>Writing Madness,</i>a collection of his short fiction and selected non-fiction. His novel<i>Trauma</i>was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and<i>Spider</i>was filmed by David Cronenberg from McGrath's adaptation. He co-edited an influential anthology of short fiction,<i>The New Gothic,</i>and recent non-fiction includes introductions to<i>The Monk, Moby Dick</i>and<i>Barnaby Rudge.</i>Patrick McGrath lives in Manhattan and London.

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