The Lambs of London - Rilegato

"Marvelous, sophisticated entertainment...Peter Ackroyd carefully weaves another gorgeously textured fictional narrative based in historical fact and on historical figures. The famous late-nineteenth-century English essayist Charles Lamb is the focal point around which Ackroyd tells a stylish, intelligent, and suspenseful tale."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Steeping readers in revealing but unobtrusive period detail, Ackroyd once again delivers a psychologically rich evocation of a vanished time."
—Publishers Weekly

"Gothic and wry, with a sweet-and-sour mix of tragedy and comedy worthy of a Romantic-period Shakespeare forgery, The Lambs of London builds to...a moving crescendo. Everything about this carefully constructed novel is beautifully ambiguous."
—Newsday

"A delicious entertainment, faithful to its period, but done with the lightest of touches. . . . Nobody knows this world better than Peter Ackroyd, and his latest foray into bygone London finds him at the top of his form."
—Sunday Telegraph

"Touching and ingenious."
—Times Literary Supplement

"The freshness and vividness of these scenes add to the narrative suspense."
—Sunday Times

"[An] energetic, clever and strange historical novel."
—Telegraph

Peter Ackroyd has won many prizes for his fiction including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the bestselling London: The Biography and Illustrated London, as well as Albion.
From the Trade Paperback edition.