THE ILLUSIONS
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RELEASED 22 JUNE 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook
Author Liz Hyder
Publisher Manilla Press
Stage magic and early moving pictures share many attributes, particularly the appearance to an audience of something impossible – whether that’s a disappearing assistant or reappearing dove, or the image of a moving train projected within a building. Set in 1896, The Illusions combines magic and movie-making with a charismatic array of characters struggling to make their mark in the world.