Elizabeth Macneal: Gothic Chills

Bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth Macneal excels in dark atmospheric storytelling: richly imagined and revelling in the gothic and grotesque. Shining a light on the plight of women with limited means in Victorian England, her new book is both gripping and unsettling. Circus of Wonders introduces us to Nell, a violet picker set apart from her community by the birthmarks that speckle her skin, who is sold by her father to Jasper Jupiter’s Circus.

Join this fabulous author as she talks to Jo Nadin about the craft of stepping back into the past.