Pandora: The instant no.1 Sunday Times bestseller

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For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. Together with the help of a bookbinder Edward Lawrence, they try to figure out the origin and authenticity of the vase but what will this unleash? Is this vase cursed as some people believe because people start to die...... Immediately sympathised with the character of Dora and her struggles trying to find independence and freedom in a patriarchal society. Edward was equally wonderful - so good and earnest and the perfect foil to Dora’s detestable uncle - a Thenadier style character - that everyone will love to hate.

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Those clearcut, simple main players are plainly a creative decision, though, because Stokes-Chapman can write fascinating, three-dimensional characters; sharp, sad Cornelius Ashmole and the angrily tragic Lottie, Hezekiah’s housekeeper, haunt the periphery of the novel. Meanwhile, extensive research brings the period so much to life you can taste it. With a convoluted plot full of buried family histories and fantastical archaeological theories, Pandora is a readable, solid debut. This book is set in Georgian London, where Pandora “Dora” Blake is an aspiring jewellery designer who currently lives with her Uncle, Hezekiah, in what use to be her parents famous shop of antiquities. Since her parents deaths 12 years ago, Dora has seen the shop turn from fame and genuine artefacts, to the crooked and more questionable ways of her Uncle. Paris Fury reveals nanny REFUSED to work with her after meeting the 'wild' seven children she shares with Tyson There’s a sense that Pandora holds the moral high ground in this novel, not because she does good things but because she is suffering under her uncle’s tyranny. Virtue via suffering is apt for this time period, but it’s also a device that sometimes makes her bland. Meanwhile, her uncle is purely despicable – he too tends to be flat.

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Created by Hephaestus and released into the world of men to bring both misery and hope, Pandora is a figure whose name conjures an expectation of mythic drama; but Susan Stokes-Chapman’s bestselling debut novel only hints gently at those possibilities. Her Pandora is a young woman living in an attic above her uncle’s shop of fake antiquities in 18th-century London, training herself to become a designer of fine jewellery. King Charles sweetly refers to his 'beloved daughter-in-law' Kate as he shares details of Prince William's proposal to the princess Richard E Grant pays tribute to his late wife Joan Washington on their 37th wedding anniversary- two years after her death from cancer

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What she was not expecting was the number of revelations and questions that the pithos and its discovery brings up. Mean Girls reunion! Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert return to North Shore High alongside a new generation of Plastics in Walmart adsREVEALED: The 'super comfortable' power leggings from Sweaty Betty that gym goers can't get enough of Queen Camilla feeds an orphaned baby elephant at specialist wildlife centre in Nairobi on second day of state visit to Kenya Alec Baldwin has 'had enough' of acting and is pitching a REALITY TV SHOW with his family - as he faces possibility of involuntary manslaughter charges Selma Blair admits it was 'very hard' becoming a mother amid MS diagnosis as she covers Glamour's Women Of The Year A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations and romance.