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Sea Change

Oct 19, 2024 12:44 PM

Author:Robert Goddard

Sea Change

January, 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age - the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to Amsterdam.

The package safely delivered, Spandrel barely survives an attempt on his life, only to discover the recipient has been murdered, and Spandrel is the prime suspect. Spandrel quickly realises that he has become a pawn in several people's games - British Government agents, and others, are on his trail, believing that the mysterious package contains secrets that could spark a revolution in England.

Spandrel's only chance of survival is to recover the package and place its contents in the right hands. But what are the contents and whose exactly are the right hands?

Reviews

There is more adventure and less mystery in this than in some of Goddard's other books, but the result is engrossing, storytelling of a very high order

—— Observer

Cliffhanging entertainment... Goddard unwinds his plots like a conjurer

—— Guardian

The master of the triple double-cross

—— The Times

Hypnotising

—— Daily Mail

A master storyteller

—— Sunday Independent

One of Britain's finest thriller writers

—— Time Out

A compelling storyteller of our time

—— Sunday Telegraph

Compulsively readable

—— Sunday Times

Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd

—— Daily Mail

A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London

—— The Sunday Telegraph

A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria

—— Psychologies

As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture

—— The Scotsman

A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense

—— The Times

Mesmerising, elegant and compelling

—— The Lady

This spine-tingling novel… will certainly keep your nerves jangling

—— Woman's Weekly

An excellent ghost story...magnificently eerie...compulsive reading

—— Evening Standard

She writes with great power, authentically chilling

—— Daily Telegraph

One of the most popular British ghost stories of modern times

—— Observer

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