The Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller

The Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller

A BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick

A Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers of the Year Pick

'This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre' ― Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal

Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens is an epic and sweeping mystery set in Georgian high society, a dazzling story offering up intrigue, heartbreak, and audacious twists.

• This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .*

A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar.

Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour of Bath, her fortune-telling is a delight to high society.

But she cannot ignore the questions that gnaw at her soul: who was her mother? How did she die? And who are the mysterious enemies her father was always terrified would find him?