![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life. With both her mother and father dead, she has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. ![]() Velvet’s adventures remain absorbing, but older readers in particular will likely anticipate most of the plot developments. Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. She struggles to make ends meet by working in a steam. Since Hooper gives readers access to Madame’s private sessions in interludes scattered throughout the novel, they will realize that all is not as it seems long before Velvet does. Read 130 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Given the author’s background in historical fiction, it’s no surprise that Hooper (Fallen Grace) has a strong handle on the details of the period the novel’s structure, though, is more problematic. Velvet’s only concern is that the spirit of her cruel father-who, Velvet fears, may have a few things to reveal about the night he died-might visit her new employer. The work is easier, Madame is as kind as she is beautiful, and there seems to be a spark between Velvet and Madame’s handsome assistant, George. When the mysterious Madame Savoya plucks teenage Velvet Groves from her grueling job at a laundry, Velvet is thrilled. Mediums are all the rage in London at the dawn of the 20th century-even Arthur Conan Doyle attends séances. ![]()
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