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During his theatre's 1845 winter season at Covent Garden, the actor Edmund Denny's encounter with the mysterious Rosa, finds him drawn into a world stranger than the tales she spins to beguile him. Meanwhile, his wife, Elfina, falls for the erotic charms of an Irish actor. But do her lover’s secrets threaten to ruin more than just the Dennys’ reputation as the theatre’s golden couple?

 

For amidst the struggle between conflicting loves and ambitions, Denny and his wife discover other darker forces are configured. And in scenarios played out across London, Dublin, Boston and New York, they must plot their way through the uncanny narrative fate has written.

 

A feature film adaptation of Maggie Power's deliciously gothic new novel.