- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial (5 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 9997021452
- ISBN-13: 978-0007149667
- ASIN: 0007149662
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 622,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Deftly handles the movement between two worlds, four centuries apart. Her range of cultural reference is dazzling.' Literary Review 'Riveting ! blending passion, wit, and witchcraft to sparkling effect.' Daily Mail 'A fascinating coda to the history of the twentieth century politically engaged novel ! a novel that bristles with ideas.' Sunday Times 'A novel of high emotion and devious stratagems ! I read avidly to the (literally) incendiary close.' Spectator Praise for Maureen Duffy: 'Maureen Duffy is one of the few British writers of fiction of real class' Financial Times 'An experienced, prolific novelist; nothing she writes can fail.' Daily Telegraph 'Maureen Duffy is one of Britain's foremost writers.' Guardian
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'Deftly handles the movement between two worlds, four centuries apart. Her range of cultural reference is dazzling.' Literary Review
'Riveting … blending passion, wit, and witchcraft to sparkling effect.' Daily Mail
'A fascinating coda to the history of the twentieth century politically engaged novel … a novel that bristles with ideas.' Sunday Times
'A novel of high emotion and devious stratagems … I read avidly to the (literally) incendiary close.' Spectator
Praise for Maureen Duffy:
‘Maureen Duffy is one of the few British writers of fiction of real class’ Financial Times
‘An experienced, prolific novelist; nothing she writes can fail.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Maureen Duffy is one of Britain’s foremost writers.’ Guardian
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A good Maureen Duffy novel. Better than Restitution or Occam's Razor, not as good as Capital - Wounds - Changes (but then very few novels are). The heroine is a London lesbian biker solicitor who finds an unfair dismissal case turning into an investigation of a cult and bound up with the story of a lesbian alchemist accused of witchcraft in 1603 (Duffy seems well up in the background). A third strain is the heroine's past love affair, and the 3 are well handled together to maintain interest in each.
Format:Paperback
I was really disappointed by this book after reading the reviews. I found it difficult to read, lengthy and padded out, very little about alchemy and to be honest quite boring. Alchemy
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love reading, so it is not hard for me to be engrossed in a good book. And this was no exception. I found myself longing to be reading it when i wasn't and swept away with a tale of intrigue.
The book is written in, seemingly, a common trend of past/present - so has two main heroines, who's stories, whilst not directly interlinked, or mirroring each other, have similiarities.. Although the way Duffy ends the character from the pasts story is abit cheap!
I read the book around the same time as The Thirteenth Tale and The Savage Garden, and all three were in a very similar easy to read style.
Perfect for snuggling up away from the bad weather in front of the fire!
The book is written in, seemingly, a common trend of past/present - so has two main heroines, who's stories, whilst not directly interlinked, or mirroring each other, have similiarities.. Although the way Duffy ends the character from the pasts story is abit cheap!
I read the book around the same time as The Thirteenth Tale and The Savage Garden, and all three were in a very similar easy to read style.
Perfect for snuggling up away from the bad weather in front of the fire!
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