A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN DAILY EXPRESS, I AND IRISH INDEPENDENT''Thrilling, mysterious, twisted'' Graham Norton''Utterly mesmerising . . . A triumph'' New York Times Book Review''Delivers chills galore'' GuardianThe case of the extraordinary child . . .London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.