![]() The novel is presented as a historical true-crime, in the form of a diary from 1863 kept by a young man, Richard Shenstone, who finds himself "rusticated" – expelled from Cambridge for an offence whose seriousness is only gradually revealed. ![]() It shares a number of similarities with its predecessor, The Unburied, including its setting: a Victorian murder mystery, complete with hidden scandals, desolate mist-wreathed marshes, lost documents and a contested inheritance. ![]() His output since then has been sporadic – Rustication is his first novel in more than 10 years and only the second published in the UK since The Quincunx. C harles Palliser's debut novel, The Quincunx, was a vast and complex homage to the Victorian novel, full of interlinked puzzles and a Dickensian cast of characters, that became an international bestseller in 1989. ![]()
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