6/19/2023 0 Comments The bedlam stacks review![]() ![]() Set mainly in Peru in 1860, The Bedlam Stacks is narrated by Merrick Tremayne, a former opium smuggler and an expert in botany. ![]() I never got round to reading that book, but when I heard about her new one, The Bedlam Stacks – which sounded just as intriguing – I decided to give it a try. I remember seeing lots of very positive reviews of her first, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a year or two ago and thinking it sounded interesting. The story unfolds at a wandering pace, gently piquing your curiosity, and the characters and their relationships blossom before your eyes. Another beautiful slow burn of a journey, I had the biggest book hangover when I finished this, like emerging from a thick, dream-like fog and back into the real world. Natasha Pulley has absolutely done it again, and I want her to write historical clockwork magical realism forever and ever. ![]() I cannot begin to describe the joy of being approved for this book on Netgalley. Take the India office up on their dangerous offerĭespite his assurance that he is physically incapable of the journey, he accepts the India office's offer to go to Peru in search of cinchona trees, an altogether more dangerous and strange mission than Merrick could have imagined. Wounded and disillusioned, Merrick Tremayne has moved back home to live with his brother in a crumbling Cornish estate. ![]()
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