<b>Named a Most Anticipated </b><B>Science Fiction & Fantasy</B><b> Book of 2023 by <i>Polygon </i>and <i>Tor</i>!</b><BR><BR><b><b>From <i>New York Times </i>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 are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.</b></b><BR><BR>It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.<BR><BR>Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, wh