In thirteenth-century France, Christina, daughter of heretic and sculptor Giles of Beauvais, struggles to keep a secret. In twenty-first-century Chicago, Christina Carver, daughter of rebel physicist Dr Giles Carver, also keeps a secret. In each time frame, Christina will fall into a coma and wake to a changed world. It will take all of her father's power to reach his daughter, and all of her love to be brave enough to follow a reality which seems to be changing all around her. Are Christina's memories real, and is the man who claims to be her father really who he says he is?This gripping story unfolds across two worlds, drawing together the contrasting forces of magic and metaphysics to present a place where centuries collide, identities are entangled and communication knows no earthly boundary. In this world anything seems possible, and it's only the strange powers unleashed by human will and imagination that can make a life-or-death difference.
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'The Wave Theory of Angels ... is a compelling story that manages a subtle delivery... The tale is gripping, the transitions are flawless and the characters are well-drawn. MacLeod takes a risk with this novel and succeeds.'
-- The Montreal Gazette, July 2005
'The Wave Theory of Angels is a bold and beautiful dismantling of the linearity and fixedness of time and space... [MacLeod] has achieved an enchanting, playful and, at times, dark probing of the limits of our knowledge. It's a novel that leaves us wondering if we will not forever continue to uncover further ranks of angels, other dimensions of time and space.' -- The Globe and Mail, Toronto, July 2005
-- The Montreal Gazette, July 2005
'The Wave Theory of Angels is a bold and beautiful dismantling of the linearity and fixedness of time and space... [MacLeod] has achieved an enchanting, playful and, at times, dark probing of the limits of our knowledge. It's a novel that leaves us wondering if we will not forever continue to uncover further ranks of angels, other dimensions of time and space.' -- The Globe and Mail, Toronto, July 2005
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Alison MacLeod is the author of the novel The Changeling. Her short stories have been published by Prospect, London Magazine, Pulp.Net and Virago. She lives in Brighton.
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This is a beautiful and daring novel - it reads like something new and genuinely modern. The writing mesmerises you inch by inch with rich, original ideas juxtaposed in such a way that I was completely absorbed. At its core, it's a story about energy and passions: a twenty-year old woman's passion to be real and vital in the world, and her maverick father's passion to pursue the mysteries of the invisible world. In 1284 Giles is a sculptor working on a High Gothic cathedral in France; its soaring heights are an architectural testament to the passions of men. In 2001, Giles works in high-energy physics in the sky-scraping Fermilab. He's chasing the so-called Theory of Everything. I was in awe of the way the two storylines - 13th century and 21st century - weave around one another. The story starts off slowly, seductively ... then grows into your thinking person's thriller, as each character is pushed to his or her own personal limit. The final pages will stay with me for a long time - a haunting image of unstoppable life-force at the very end.
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a most remarkable book. gracefully and deftly written, its many layers interwoven with virtuoso skill, it does full justice to its ambitious subject - the ever-collapsing quantum wave and the world-conjuring role of attentive consciousness. the narrative roves like a beam of light amongst the principal characters, mirroring themselves in their intimately connected timeframes. this is a hugely intelligent novel about the multi-dimensional nature of reality, and it will bear much re-reading.
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This is an amazing read, combining two fascinating stories with ideas about theology, mysticism and quantum physics. All too often novels with ideas in them can seem dry and hard to read. Not this one. The story bowls along, carrying you with it. A real intellectual page-turner.
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Alison MacLeod's The Wave Theory of Angels is part post-modern sleeping beauty, part Stephen Hawking and part time traveling incubus. Read more
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A mesmerizing read. I love the mixture of modern and medieval, science and philosophy, mystery and straight-forwardness in this captivating novel. Read more
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It's a wonderful novel - really extraordinary. It's astonishing how the two narratives, past and present, are held together with all their parallels - in science and philosophy and... Read more
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The Wave Theory of Angels by Alison Macleod
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