Elizabeth Macneal

Elizabeth Macneal on The Burial Plot

From The Doll Factory author Elizabeth Macneal comes another gothic novel set in the eerie underworld of Victorian London. Join us in June to delve into The Burial Plot - if you dare!

London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie's feet and now she needs to disappear.

Crawford secures her a position as lady's maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family (the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself) she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house's paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.

Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .

Elizabeth Macneal was born in Scotland and now lives in Twickenham. She is a writer and potter and works from a small studio at the bottom of her garden. The Doll Factory, Elizabeth's debut novel, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and has been optioned for a major television series. Her second novel, Circus of Wonders, was also a Sunday Times bestseller.