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The #1 International Bestseller New York Times Editor's Choice "A lush, evocative Gothic." - The New York Times Book Review "This terrifically exciting novel will jolt, thrill, and bewitch readers." - BOOKLIST , starred review Obsession is an art. In this "sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession" (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train) , a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man's dark obsession may destroy her world forever.In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning.