![]() ![]() Everything comes together in an interesting way. ![]() I like books where everything is connected. Suffice it to say that there are numerous interested parties, and it seems that John runs into them wherever he goes. I would explain how all this works, but it is so complex and confusing and involves so many people and confusing Victorian legalities, that I won’t try. This book is all about John and his struggles to get at his birthright – he is sort of the heir to a fortune, but it’s a complicated legal matter, and a number of different parties are involved in trying to get the inheritance for themselves. The protagonist, John Huffam, spends a lot of time being really unhappy in (Victorian) London, due to the seedier elements there, which he encounters a lot of as he finds himself in dire circumstances. London’s lovely perfection is not so much in evidence in The Quincunx. ![]() I think of London almost every day, because I miss it so much and I want to go back. It is full of London, so I thought that would be a point in its favor. ![]() I read about Charles Palliser on this website, but The Unburied, which is the book she actually reviewed, wasn’t at the library. ![]()
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