Jess Kidd 
Things in Jars 

»Thrilling, mysterious, twisted» Graham Norton»Utterly mesmerising . . . A triumph» New York Times Book Review»Delivers chills galore» Guardian The case of the extraordinary child . . .London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.