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Birds of Prey

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
15 hours 20 minutes
ISBN
9781802569803
Published
29 December 2025
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • social ambition
  • moral dilemmas
  • romance
  • class and society
  • hidden emotions
  • intrigue
  • respectability
  • personal conflict
  • betrayal

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Description

Dentist Philip Sheldon turns medicine into a predatory scheme for money and power, drawing murder, blackmail, and respectable London into a nest of birds of prey. Ambition wears a professional smile until the bodies and secrets catch up. Spoken as when birds of prey still ask what a healer will kill for when profit dresses as care.

Author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for her Victorian sensation fiction. Rising from modest beginnings, she gained fame with Lady Audley’s Secret, which cemented her reputation for blending mystery, psychology, and social critique. Prolific and influential, Braddon wrote more than 80 novels and helped shape popular Victorian literature.

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