‘A visual delight’ The Times ‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times ‘Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?’ 1792. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they’ve been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Jem and Maggie’s passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration…
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‘A visual delight’ The Times ‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times
'A subtle clarity of style, quirky but seldom over-drawn characters, engaging touches of domestic detail and a splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London'Sunday Times 'Vivid, romantic and pacey'Daily Mail 'Those who admired Chevalier's atmospheric evocation of 17th-century Delft will find much to enjoy in her vivid reconstruction of late 18th-century London'Guardian 'Burning Bright is an ambitious, impressively-researched novel…You can almost smell the smoke and mildewed clothes, see the gaunt, pock-marked faces of people struggling to survive and sense Jem's wonder as he gazes across the murky Thames to a perplexing world'Daily Express
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• This is part of a beautifully repackaged collection of Tracy Chevalier’s fiction that will incorporate all of her bestselling novels. • Her latest novel The Last Runaway made the TOP TEN Sunday Times Bestseller List on publication • Publishing in the year of the William Blake anniversary, Burning Bright went straight into the Sunday Times Top Ten on hardback publication • Girl With a Pearl Earring has sold over 2 million copies in paperback worldwide and is now a major Hollywood film, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson Competition: William Blake;Sarah Waters;
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007178360
Publisert
2008-02-04
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Vekt
270 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Tracy Chevalier is the author of six novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures, The Virgin Blue, Falling Angels, and The Lady and the Unicorn. Born in Washington, DC, she moved to London in 1984, where she lives with her husband and son. She has a website at www.tchevalier.com.