Currently Reading: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is the intoxicating story of a young woman who aspires to be an artist, and the man whose obsession may destroy her world for ever.

London. 1850. The greatest spectacle the city has ever seen is being built in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching two people meet. 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. 

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. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.

But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .

• Format Hardback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 216 x 33mm | 597g
• Publication date 2 May 2019
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint PICADOR
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1529002397
• ISBN13 9781529002393

The Doll Factory will be published in the UK by Picador on 2nd May 2019, and by Emily Bestler Books/Atria in the US on 3rd September 2019, and will be translated into 28 languages.

It won the Caledonia Novel Award 2018 and film and TV rights have sold to Buccaneer Media.