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October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.
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Women--England--Fiction. Surgeons--Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction. Abnormalities, Human--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction. Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.