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A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling writer of The Quincunx. Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that truth disappears" (New York Times). Since his outstanding debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he results to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied. It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged 17, has been directed down - "rusticated" - from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Dependent on opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds short-term refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English seacoast inhabited by his newly impoverished mom and his sister, Effie. Soon, visual and threatening letters commence to circulate among his neighbours, and Richard discovers himself the leading suspect in a series of offences and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder. Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly performed, Rustication confirms Palliser's reputation as "our leading modern Victorian novelist" (Guardian).
