“King writes with witty verve.” - Entertainment Weekly Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora’s search for the truth behind the mystery she’s long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be.

Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half its theaters and many museums the Morgue Ship and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.ĭora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire-to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. From New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.

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