“An addictively page-turning piece of Victoriana” – Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

"Things in Jars takes great enjoyment in the variety of evil and genius present in Victorian London, the juxtaposition of its criminality and invention. It was a time when medical advances were as much about entertainment, surgeons operated in front of the paying public, as science. One disappointed observer of an amputation complains about the invention of anaesthesia: “There’s just not the same entertainment when a patient sleeps through.”" - James Doyle reviews Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

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