From Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of
illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are
noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers the most wonderful criminals.
At first glance, the world has not changed: the trams on the boulevards, the
grand hotels, the cafes abuzz with conversation. The street kids still play on
the two great bridges that divide the city, and the smart set still venture down
to the Morgue Ship for an evening's entertainment. Yet it only takes a spark to
ignite a revolution. For young Dora, a maid at the university, the moment brings
liberation. She finds herself walking out with one of the student radicals,
Robert, free to investigate what her brother Ambrose may have seen at the
Institute for Psykical Research before he died. But it is another establishment
that Dora is given to look after, The Museum of the Worker. This strange,
forgotten edifice is occupied by waxwork tableaux of miners, nurses, shopkeepers
and other disturbingly lifelike figures. As the revolution and
counter-revolution outside unleash forces of love, betrayal, magic and
terrifying darkness, Dora's search for the truth behind a mystery that she has
long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the very
edge of worlds. In The Curator, Owen King has created an extraordinary time and
place - historical, fantastical, yet compellingly real, and a heroine who is
courageous, curious and utterly memorable.