Our readers loved The Doll Factory – here are some of their comments: The book was selected with the help of a panel of library staff from across the UK. But Silas has thought of one thing only since that chance encounter, and his obsession is darkening.
When Iris is asked to model from the Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint, and suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of the new dual freedoms of art and love. For Iris, it is the encounter of a moment, forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, the meeting marks a new beginning. The Great Exhibition is being constructed in Hyde Park, and two people meet among the crowd. The Doll FactoryĪn intoxicating tale of art, obsession and possession, The Doll Factory is set in London in the 1850s, and tells the story of Iris, an apprentice doll-maker who dreams of being a painter, and of Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by the strange and beautiful with ambitions of founding a museum dedicated to his macabre obsessions.
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