The unseeing

Set in London in 1837, Anna Mazzola's THE UNSEEING is the story of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, sentenced to hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown on the eve of her wedding.

Perfect for any reader of Sarah Waters or Antonia Hodgson.'With this intricately woven tale of trust, self-trust and deceit, Anna Mazzola brings a gritty realism to Victorian London.

Beautifully written and cleverly plotted, this is a stunning debut, ranked amongst the best' MANDA SCOTT After Sarah petitions for mercy, Edmund Fleetwood is appointed to investigate and consider whether justice has been done.

Idealistic, but struggling with his own demons, Edmund is determined to seek out the truth.

Yet Sarah refuses to help him, neither lying nor adding anything to the evidence gathered in court.

Edmund knows she's hiding something, but needs to discover just why she's maintaining her silence.

For how can it be that someone would willingly go to their own death?