'London, 1860's. When struggling young artist Auguste Coffey is offered food, warmth & a safe place to work by Giles Bouverie, a wealthy trainee surgeon, he accepts. But once he is installed in Bouverie's studio, their wary friendship grows darker, governed by strange & desperate desires. Soon artist & surgeon are locked in a struggle for ascendancy as they battle with their natures & the legacies of secret crimes commited out of terrible need & blind ambition.

Enter Pity, an eerily beautiful child prostitute who becomes Auguste's muse & whose presence tips his strange relationship with Giles over the edge into murder...'

Paperback in good condition.