Adventures in GALing

[AntoniaB]

BeingMe you totally get the concept of the book, from what you said above. Thanks for the support with that.

I don't think he's really steampunk, but he does work with the Victorian era a lot. My favorite set of books recently of his is the Sally Lockhart quartet...the first three are about her and the final is an offshoot that takes minor characters from her world and makes them front and center, though she is still a presence in the book. She is a Victorian woman who is very independent, runs her own finance firm and works as detective, and is very forward-thinking and feminist. Good page turners, basically historical mysteries/thrillers. The first is called The Ruby in the Smoke and it was a play Pullman wrote and the rewrote into a novel. From what you're mentioning above, I think you'd like it.