The Ghost Theatre : Utterly transporting historical fiction, Elizabethan London as you've never seen it
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BOOK OF THE YEAR - EVENING STANDARD, THE OBSERVER and THE TIMES
'Fiction that's larger than life and twice as much fun' Guardian
'Rich and evocating; the kind of story you get lost in' Independent
'Osman brings the underworld of Elizabethan London to life' Sandra Newman, author of Julia
On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar.
Together they create The Ghost Theatre: a troupe staging magical plays in London's hidden corners. As their hallucinatory performances incite rebellion among the city's outcasts, the pair's relationship sparks and burns against a backdrop of the plague...
