Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

Wickedness in wax

There’s guts and gore galore in this reimagining of the macabre career of Marie Tussaud at the height of the French revolution

issue 03 November 2018

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    Edward Carey

    Gallic Books, pp. 458

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