A family man at heart, and mild manner, his gift as an artist, which makes him the unlikely last member of the motley group.įorced together by an odd twist of fate, their lives are inextricably linked to each other’s: the fortune of one depends on the other’s. Devil and Carlo clash every chance they have and it is always falling upon Eliza to make uneasy peace between them. Devil’s right hand man is the Carlo Bonomi, the improbably named and ill-tempered dwarf that has an enormous talent for illusion and magic. She wants more.īy working as an artist’s model, she meets the magnetic Devil, a guy that is a born showman who dreams of running his own theatre company. Not for her are the stifling if respectable conventionality of kids, marriage, and domestic drudgery. London in the year 1870, it is a terrifying place for a gorgeous, young woman of limited means. “The Illusionists” is the first novel in the “Illusionists” series, which was released in the year 2014. Her work is from the genres of general fiction, romance and historical fiction.

Her debut novel, “Celebration” was released in the year 1982, published in under the Rosie Thomas name.

She is one of just a few authors to have won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, once in 1985 for “Sunrise” and again in 2007 with “Iris and Ruby”. She studied English at Oxford, and after a time in journalism and publishing, she started writing after she gave birth to her first child. Rosie was born in the year 1947 in Denbigh, Wales and grew up in North Wales. Rosie has spent some time on a small Bulgarian research station in Antartica, climbed the Himalayas and Alps, traveled the silk road through Asia, and competed in the Peking to Paris car rally. These are loves she found once her kids were grown and she was an established writer. When Janey King, nee Morris, an author of quite a few celebrated novels, is not writing, she spends time mountaineering and time traveling.

Sun at midnight by rosie thomas