Gradually, he realises that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by two generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more dangerous and valuable than the India Office could ever have imagined. The Bedlam Stacks: From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street : Pulley Natasha, Pulley Natasha: Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettlingly familiar stories of impossible disappearances and living stone. Struggling with a terrible injury from his last mission and the strange occurrences at his family's ruined estate, Merrick Tremayne finds himself under orders to bring back cinchona cuttings at any cost and dispatched, against his own better judgement, to Bedlam. The hunt for a reliable source of quinine is critical and in its desperation, the India Office searches out its last qualified expeditionary. In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg and something is wrong a statue moves, his grandfather’s pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. On the other side of the Pacific, it is 1859 and India is ravaged by the disease. An astonishing historical novel set in the shadowy, magical forests of South America, which draws on the captivating world of the international bestseller. Against his own better judgement, Merrick finds himself dispatched to Bedlam under orders to bring back cinchona cuttings at any cost.As Merrick travels into hostile territory, he meets Raphael.

But somewhere inside are cinchona trees, whose bark yields quinine: the only known treatment for malaria. The shrine statues move, and anyone who crosses the border dies. The bedlam stacks by Pulley, Natasha, author. An astonishing historical novel set in the shadowy, magical forests of South America, which draws on the captivating world of the international bestseller The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Deep in uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the edge of a forest. The Bedlam Stacks Author Natasha Pulley Edition illustrated Publisher Bloomsbury Circus, 2017 ISBN 1408878445, 9781408878446 Length 337 pages Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google.