FingersmithWe were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you. There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck one thing that had somehow withstood the tremendous pull of that passage one thing that never had a price put to it. I mean of course, Me.' Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, is born

In a preface to the book

When Bartlett

The second book in Francesca Haigs incredible Fire Sermon series

THE FRIENDS

But just as the great war comes to an end

And they're hungry

'I absolutely loved it: I had to read it at one sitting

This book is going to delight not only fantasy readers

Craving solitude

deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists

menace and desire

but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor