| Album Leaf | |
| Author: | Marjorie Bowen |
| Cover Artist: | Arthur Hawkins |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Gothic Drama |
| Publisher: | Heinemann (London) Smith and Haas (New York) |
| Release Date: | 1933 |
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Album Leaf is a 1933 novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing.[1] It was published in the United States in 1934 under the alternative title The Spider in the Cup, where it became a bestseller. Like a number of her works it has a gothic tone.
A young orphaned Englishwoman accepts an offer to become a paid companion to two reclusive aristocratic women in France. There she encounters the daughter of the house, badly scarred following her suicide attempt after she had been unable to marry a cad now serving in French Algeria and her prospective husband, a cousin named Louis who is clearly after her money and spends a lot of his time experimenting with his chemistry.