The intoxicating new novel of magic and intrigue by a master storyteller Cosmopolitan for fans of The Night Circus and Water for ElephantsOver the course of three decades of writing bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and the devotion of millions of loyal readers Her new novel The Illusionists set in London in is a thrilling step forwarda captivating tale of passion and fantasy set in the theater worldAt the start of The Illusionists we meet Eliza a young beautiful woman of limited means Eliza is modern before her time Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage children domestic drudgery She longs for more Through her work as an artists model she meets the magnetic and irascible Devila born showman whose dream is to run his own theater companyLDevils right-hand man is the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi an ill-tempered dwarf with an enormous talent for all things magic and illusion Carlo and Devil clash at every opportunity and it constantly falls upon Eliza to broker an uneasy peace between them And then there is Jasper Button Mild-mannered and a family man at heart it is his gift as an artist that makes him the unlikely final member of the motley crewThrown together by a twist of fate their lives are inextricably linked the fortune of one depends on the fortune of the other And as Eliza gets sucked into the seductive and dangerous world her strange companions inhabit she risks not only her heart but also her life which is soon thrown into peril.
