# The Mesmerist

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- Authors: [Barbara Ewing](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-ewing)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-05-15

## Description

London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. In her candle-lit Bloomsbury basement she learns to harness her talent - and to finally look towards the future. But success is fragile when you have a past filled with secrets. On a wintry, moonlit night a body is found in Bloomsbury Square, and what began as an audacious subterfuge erupts into a scandal. Cordelia's past is revealed, bringing not only heartache but terror - and the mystery of a cloaked figure who waits for her in the shadowy London streets.

## Editions

### The Mesmerist

- Publisher: Sphere
- ISBN: 978-07-5153-760-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-05-15
- Language: en_GB