# The Stockholm Octavo

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- Book: [The Stockholm Octavo](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-eng/the-stockholm-octavo) ([The Stockholm Octavo.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-eng/the-stockholm-octavo.md))
- Authors: [Karen Eng](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-eng)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4474-272-5
- Published: 2012-09-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'A delicious page-turner that brings 18th century Stockholm to vivid life, complete with scandal, conspiracy, mystery, and a hint of magic.' - Eleanor Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters In 18th century Stockholm, as the winds of revolution rage through the great capitals of Europe, the key to a nation's fate rests in the hands of an unlikely hero. Emil Larsson is a drinker, card player and contented bachelor until he is told that his position at the Office of Excise and Customs depends on his settling down and finding a wife. Mrs Sparrow, proprietor of an exclusive gaming house, fortune teller (and confidante of King Gustav III) offers to lay an Octavo for him - a form of cartomancy which can divine his future if he can find the eight individuals who can help him realise his vision. When Mrs Sparrow wins a mysterious fan in her card game, the Octavo's deeper powers are revealed. No longer just a game of the heart, collecting his Eight is now crucial to pulling his country back from the brink of rebellion and chaos. A debut novel full of opulent period detail, brilliantly interweaving history, romance and intrigue, in which one man's fortune holds the key to a nation's precarious fate.