She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is.

But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. Originally published in 1994 - and never before available in the United States - Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister - a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.

Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris