A subversive and thrilling gothic tale, it will keep you up all night. It's the sort of novel you say you'll read for only ten more minutes because it's already way past your bedtime. Two hours later, your light is still on New York Times Book Review Thrillingly subversive New York Times Grant captures a dizzying sense of a world being remade simultaneously by bankers and Bach -- Kate Saunders The Times Deliciously dark, transgressive and surprising ... LaClos (Dangerous Liaisons) would have dived under the covers with delight and swallowed it in one sitting -- Emily Maitlis Evening Standard You will be seduced as surely as Katie Grant's young ladies in this masterpiece of salacious wit. THIS is one of those precious novels. The kind that bookworms burrow inside to devour with relish from cover to cover. The kind you'll secrete behind all the other books on your shelves in case friends steal it and somehow "forget" to give it back. The kind from which you'll read chosen snippets to your offspring when they're old enough. An induction into the magical unruliness of words. Not a dull or superfluous page Scotland on Sunday Packed with colourful characters ... this is an original, winningly imagined tale Daily Mail A witty, subversive story of sexual politics Sunday Times Original and dark ... [Grant] writes with wit, verve and not a little mischief The Times In its fairly irresistible combination of transgressive sex and a richly layered evocation of history, Sedition demands comparison with Sarah Waters' untouchably brilliant novels ... a properly subversive and quite unforgettable novel Guardian As dark and deceitful as it is bawdy, the beautiful bastard child of Choderlos de Laclos's Les liasons dangereuses and Sarah Waters's Fingersmith Observer A sly, witty, deliciously knowing treat ... [a] fascinating debut Metro This spiritedly fantastic novel, written in highly considered and often often funny prose, is both unusual and memorable, building to a flamboyant crescendo. In its rambunctious spirit, Sedition's sharp tone and dispassionate handling of emotion recalls the waspish glitter of 18th-century plays -- Philippa Stockley Country Life
