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In this clip from our launch event for SHADOWPLAY, Joseph O’Connor magnificent new novel set during the golden age of West End theatre, the author talks about two central characters in the novel, Bram Stoker, then manager of the Lyceum Theatre, and Henry Irving, Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater impresario.
Their turbulent relationship will inspire Stoker to write his masterpiece, DRACULA.
WINNER of the “Novel of the Year” prize at the 2019 An Irish Post Book Awards, SHADOWPLAY is set in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper. The novel follows Bram Stoker’s extraordinary experiences as the manager of the Lyceum Theatre and his friendship with theater impresario Henry Irving and actress Ellen Terry.
Stoker’s early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Terry, inspire him to write Dracula, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published.
“Joseph O’Connor’s magnificent novel does even more than fly, it soars.”-Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
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