A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH'Vivid, visceral and utterly immersive. Extraordinary' LIZ HYDER author of *TheGifts*'You can smell the spit and sawdust rising from the pages of thisatmospheric gothic novel.

' - *RED Magazine*'A Violent, disturbing gothic tale compellingly told. ' - *The Guardian*‘If you love Sarah Waters and dark historical fiction, you will no doubt behooked.

’ - *Diva magazine*In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life.

Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense.

*The Knowing* is a darklyspellbinding novel about a girl fighting for her survival in the decayingcriminal underworlds. Whilst working as a living canvas for an abusive tattoo artist, Flora meetsMinnie, an enigmatic circus performer who offers her love and refuge in anopulent townhouse, home to the menacing Mr Chester Merton.

Flora earns herkeep reading tarot cards for his guests whilst struggling to harness hergift, the Knowing - an ability to summon the dead. Caught in a dark lovetriangle between Minnie and Chester, Flora begins to unravel the secretsinside their house.

Then at her first public séance, Flora hears the spiritof a murdered boy prostitute and exposes his killer, setting off a train ofevents which put her life at risk. The Knowing is a stunning debut inspired by real historical charactersincluding Maud Wagner, one of the first known female tattoo artists, NewYork gang the Dead Rabbits, and characters from PT Barnum's circus.

Something Powerful Is Coming. .