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Little Spark

By: Jess Kidd
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
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'Kidd has imagination to die for' Guardian A secret cannot stay locked away forever Bodkin Bell, orphan, pickpocket and survivor, doesn't know where she came from, but she knows she's different. Gaslights flare as she walks past. Cutlery spins. Shocks fly from her fingertips. For years, she was 'Little Spark', the star of an electrifying travelling act - until it went too far and she ended up in a London gaol. Now she's been offered a way out. A chance to serve at Point Mote, a vast, desolate house marooned on the misty Kent marshes. There, she will assist a reclusive family of cunning inventors in the creation of automata: miraculous, lifelike machines for which gentlemen collectors will pay handsomely. But this house of wonders hides mysteries too. As Bodkin starts to question why she is really there, she unearths secrets that have been buried bone-deep for years - and a truth beyond all imagining. One that was never meant to be found. Fantasy
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Critic reviews

Praise for Jess Kidd's The Night Ship: Lyrical, haunting, a beautiful and elegant fictional interpretation of history, I loved it (KATE MOSSE)
Majestic . . . Kidd packs the story with superb characters, high emotion and drama . . . this gripping story ebbs and bobs with surprises from Kidd's sparkling imagination
The ambition and execution of The Night Ship is breathtaking! Sweet and grim, epic and domestic - I loved it . . . readers are in for a treat (GRAHAM NORTON)
[A] marvellous, spirited novel
Jess Kidd's extraordinary evocation of a place gruesome with ghosts and the stranglehold of the past is nothing short of brilliant. I loved it (HANNAH KENT)
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