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The House of Storms (Hardcover)
by Ian R. MacLeod (Author)
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The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aether's extraordinary influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Age of Industry, that lay at England's troubled heart. When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease. In desperation she travels to Einfell, to seek favour from one who once trusted her. And Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London, he is drawn away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fisherman's daughter Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it sees itself. But Alice will not let love stand in the way of her in her insatiable lust for power - nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war. An astonishing work of imagination, Ian R.

Macleod has created a truly original world, one that is strangely recognizable and yet utterly new, an England made of magic, but set amongst familiar hills and cities.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic - almost Dickensian, a powerful writer!, 5 May 2005
House of Storms is an immensely moving novel. Macleod is clearly an excellent writer, both in skill, and in terms of plot. Without giving too much away, the story seems almost conventional - set in a Victorian England, about young love fighting against almost insurmountable forces. However, there is a great deal of complexity and depth in the novel - England is different from what we know, suffused with a mysterious substance called aether which is both magical and corrupting. The character of Alice Meynell is both dark and compelling, and unlike many fantasies, Macleod manages to portray everything in an original and fresh way, without resorting to cliches.

If you like great descriptive writing and detailed characterisation, without a plot moving at 100 miles an hour, I would recommend this book. ie not like Eddings or Brooks or Feists more recent works. More like a Dicken's novel, with a hint of Peake.

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