The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.<br /><br />Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?<br /><br />Dorothea and Ruth.<br /><br />Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless.<br /><br />Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.<br /><br />When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.<br /><br />The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations – of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses – will shake Dorothea's belief in ration
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