Chelsey Johnson asked this question about
The Lie Tree:
Hi. What time period era/decade/year is this set in?? Thank you.
Mary Haynes
The book is set in the Victorian era, shortly after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Sometime around 1865 sounds about right.
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