The Candlelit Menagerie: A Novel

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For fans of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock and the novels of Hannah Kent, The Candlelit Menagerie grabs hold and pulls readers into the dim halls of the exotic animal world of London, three hundred years ago. Set in late eighteenth-century London, this haunting debut novel features Lillian, a freakishly tall woman who struggles to fit into soci

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Praise for TheCandlelit Menagerie:

Vibrantly capturing the hustle and bustle of the era, Browns novel will appeal to animal lovers and historical fiction aficionados alike. Booklist

Brown weaves the historical lives of menagerie owners, keepers, and animals into the fictional world of Gradys Menagerie and its female keeper,Lillian. The Candlelit Menagerieis both illuminatedby the past and a new, imaginative story of a life spent withanimals.Christopher Plumb, author ofThe Georgian Menagerie

"Aheart-warming story withas much pain as joy, andan utterly believable leadcharacter, immersed inthe real history of exoticanimal-keeping in the late18th century." --The Fortean Times

This intoxicating novel drew me instantly in to the thrilling world of the first London menageries, full of the most exotic animals and birds ever seen. And presiding tenderly over them, a woman ahead of her time, the tall crop-haired Lillian, who immediately shot to the top of my list of fascinating, complex literary heroines. What a wonderful, unusual read!Beth Miller,author ofThe Missing Letters of Mrs Bright

Brown has done her research, and each page of her debut novel is full of interesting details about living in London in the late 18th century. Every character is interesting in their own way, from Lillian, Grady, and Button, with whom we spend the most time, to the one-offs Lillian meets along the way.Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Caraline Brown is an award-winning British businesswomen, having started her first PR company with nothing but a 2K loan. Her internet-focused approach revolutionized start-up business strategies. She left the PR world in 2017 to devote herself to writing.TheCandlelit Menagerieis her magical debut. She lives in Brighton, England.