Who is Thomas Peach? • Ah, reader! - if you would have us answer that question - What mysteries you shall compel us to expose! • It is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife • Among his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife? • For the most part, though, the couple live in peace - until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel them from their home • Faced with the prospect of penury - and perhaps worse - the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself • But fate has other plans for Thomas Peach • A bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the madhouse
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