This feud escalates over the years, hurting those around them whilst simultaneously spurring them both on in pursuit of the ultimate illusion. They find ever more imaginative ways to sabotage each other's shows and they become obsessed with learning one another's secrets. Essentially, this is the story of two stage magicians (Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier) in Victorian London, who fall out and become life-long enemies. It's hard to say too much about the story of The Prestige without giving away the plot.
I downloaded it and started reading immediately. I'm usually a book-before-film girl, but I only realised afterwards that this was based on a novel. It had me gripped from beginning to end, and I spent the next few days unpicking the clues to the denouement that I'd missed, and the ways in which the production itself echoed the story. When I watched The Prestige film, I thought it was brilliant - beautifully produced and very clever.
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