

I’ve been meaning to read this book for ages, so when I got the chance to pick a book for a readalong with some of my fab crew on Twitter, I snuck this one in.

And it is only a matter of time before they meet again. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition he finds he cannot forget her.Īs Iris’s world expands, Silas’s obsession grows.

Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint.ĭreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into a new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Louis is a painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal Blurb
