<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>UNLIKE MOST VICTORIAN women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally's whole world is about to collapse. A stranger emerges, claiming to be both her husband and Harriet's father and threatening all that she has.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fast-paced gem."<i>--Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (<i>The Golden Compass, </i> <i>The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass</i>), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by <i>Newsweek</i> and one of the all-time greatest novels by <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for <i>The Golden Compass </i>(and the reader-voted Carnegie of Carnegies for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for <i>The Amber Spyglass</i>; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (<i>The Amber Spyglass</i>); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (<i>The Subtle Knife</i> and <i>The Amber Spyglass</i>); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. <p/> It has recently been announced that <i>The Book of Dust</i>, the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman, also set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a major work in three parts, with the first part to arrive in October 2017. <p/> Philip Pullman is the author of many other much-lauded novels. Other volumes related to His Dark Materials: <i>Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North</i>, and <i>The Collectors</i>. For younger readers: <i>I Was a Rat!; Count Karlstein; Two Crafty Criminals; Spring-Heeled Jack, </i>and <i>The Scarecrow and His Servant.</i> For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet: <i>The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, </i> and <i>The Tin Princess</i>; <i>The White Mercedes</i>; and <i>The Broken Bridge</i>. <p/> Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit philip-pullman.com and hisdarkmaterials.com. Or follow him on Twitter at @PhilipPullman.
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