1850年的倫敦，海德公園前的一段相遇，茫茫人海中，尚未發跡的畫家艾莉絲(Iris)，遇上拉菲爾前派的畫家路易(Louis Frost)，還有緊迫盯人的希萊(Silas Reed)。在這座偉大的城市，交織出驚心動魄的愛情故事。

　　作者麥可尼爾(Macneal)重新塑造拉斐爾前派的元老級畫家。像威廉霍爾曼亨特(William Holman Hunt)、約翰艾佛瑞特米萊(John Everett Millais)與但丁加百列羅塞地(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)。其中路易(Louis Frost)迷戀上艾莉絲懷特(Iris Whittle)，她是莎特小姐的洋娃娃店的娃娃畫師。當她遇上路易時，路易保證教她畫畫，代價是當他的女模特兒。

　　同時間艾莉絲也認識了一位標本師希萊瑞德(Silas Reed)，他專營動物標本給畫家們參考。希萊的狂熱，促使他的慾望本能。他偷偷地更蹤艾莉絲，像獅子一般地窺視獵物。路易成了艾莉絲的導師，他們徜徉在藝術與愛情裡。只有艾莉絲的朋友艾比(Albie)，看出希萊的不懷好意。

　　正逢倫敦水晶宮落成，萬國博覽會如火如荼展開，麥可尼爾巧妙地創造一個世界，讓讀者重返狄更斯時代的風華，再現柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)筆下的文學世界。


　　The Sunday Times Bestseller - As read on BBC Radio 4
　　A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2019

　　'A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

　　The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is the intoxicating story of a young woman who aspires to be an artist, and the man whose obsession may destroy her world for ever.

　　London. 1850. The greatest spectacle the city has ever seen is being built in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning.

　　When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.

　　But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .
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