![]() She is asked to model for Louis Frost, member of the PRB and gets drawn into a whole new world. The main character in The Doll Factory is Iris, who works in a shop on Regent Street with her twin sister, making dolls. The Pre-Raphaelite’s were a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ![]() I love a historical novel, especially one set in London, and I’ve also been intrigued by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood for a long time. But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. ![]() For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. ![]() The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. I thought the cover was very appealing, featuring a bell jar full of objects which appear in the novel – a butterfly, an iris, a girl, mouse, peacock feather – all trapped inside. It’s an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession set against a backdrop of The Great Exhibition in London. I love getting lost in a good book and I am delighted to share with you my first book review of 2019, The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal. ![]()
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