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 This is the story of a man who thinks he has passed his usefulness. After being hit by shrapnel - an episode that features an old friend from Pulley's previous novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - leaves him with a wounded leg, Merrick Tremayne leaves his job with the East India Company and retires to his family home. He and his brother live together, surviving along with the dilapidated house surrounding them. When the East India Company contacts Merrick with an opportunity to travel to Peru in hopes of gathering cinchona cuttings to circumvent the quinine monopoly, he assumes a mistake as been made and is ready to pass up the chance, even if it means being sent off by his brother to be a parson. 
 But some old friends - Clem and his wife, Minna - arrive and assure Merrick it wasn't a mistake. That the East India Company picked Merrick for his expertise with plants as well as his family's past connection with Peru - his Grandfather spent time there in a town called New Bethlehem and his father was born there. 
 In Peru, Minna sends Clem and Merrick ahead and they meet Martel, a trader, who does not believe their story about coffee, but plays into it and sends them on their way with a guide, Raphael, from New Bethlehem, which is also known as 'Bedlam'. Raphael is quiet and closed off, knows full well what Merrick and Clem are after, and while he tolerates them because Martel says he must he clearly isn't pleased with their presence on the journey or in his village. 
 For Clem, this is frustrating. For Merrick, things get a little more interesting because of his connection to New Bethlehem. He also finds that he fits right in in New Bethlehem, which is a gathering place for the disabled and the sick. They are brought, Raphael tells him, when they are young. Left at the church at night so that they will be cared for and safe. Little by little, as more about New Bethlehem is revealed to him, Merrick begins to find a place there. 
 But Clem is in a hurry to find the cinchona, to get the cuttings, to get them to India. So he ignores Raphael's warnings and steps into the woods. His actions speed up the journey, sending Raphael and Merrick off to find the cinchona, racing against Martel as well as something that dwells in the trees. Protectors that Clem dismissed as clockwork and superstition. The journey isn't the only thing that quickens, Raphael has been undergoing a change since long before Merrick entered his life and entering the woods seems to speed that process up. Soon it isn't only the cinchona that Merrick needs to get to safety, but this man he has grown close to as well. 
 The Bedlam Stacks is a slow trek, much like the one its characters take. It is, much like Pulley's previous work, quietly queer and with a hint of the supernatural. Pulley crafts every step of the journey so well, painting this beautiful story for the reader. The pace, though slow, works nicely with her style and the feel of the characters. As with The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, I quickly fell in love with The Bedlam Stacks.