Sarah Tender: 17 books

Perhaps it's amazing that Richard, and Mr Bloom - Levi - can sleep at all.  They've had an unnerving few weeks, been harassed by supernatural visitors, been haunted to within an inch of their lives.  And now, they've taken the first step into 'sin', into an intimacy that in these Victorian days...

Sharing a bed with Mr Bloom is almost as strange, for Richard, as the revelations both supernatural and sexual that came before it.  But their sleep is not uninterrupted: and Richard has one more battle to fight, before he can truly rest... And even in the light of day, his troubles do not...

Everyday life and normality has claimed him once again.  Richard is back to his regular job as a clerk in a counting-house and pawnbrokers.  Back to having Levi Bloom as his employer, also - even if it's with secrets shared between them, now.   But the supernatural world isn't done with...