Watney Market Book Group: Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor

The Watney Market Book Group discusses Joseph O’Connor’s Shadowplay, a novel about Bram Stoker’s creative and personal life in Victorian London as the idea for Dracula takes shape.

Set in London in 1878, the novel follows Bram Stoker as he develops the idea for Dracula while managing the Lyceum Theatre under the forceful impresario Henry Irving and alongside actress Ellen Terry.