'Wonderfully evocative, this book transports the reader to the dark underworld of late Elizabethan London. I was gripped from the first page.' Tracy Borman

'Vividly told, with powerfully drawn characters, this tale of obsession and betrayal set in the dark world of Tudor alchemy will cast its spell over historical fiction fans.' Heat

It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave.

They are young criminals in the pocket of a gang Lord named Will Twentyman, the Grave Eorl of Southwark. Mariner is the best cutpurse around, a strange Calvinist girl who dresses like a boy and is partner in crime to Kit Skevy, Southwark's best brawler who carries a secret: he cannot feel pain.

When caught out in their unfortunate larceny, Kit is kidnapped by the menacing alchemist Lord Isherwood (a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his hopes for the Red Lion elixir) and his studious son, Lazarus Isherwood, with whom Kit develops a complicated intrigue. When Mariner enlists the help of a competing French alchemist, Lady Elody Blackwater, Mariner and Kit are thrust into the shadowed, political world of Tudor alchemy, testing both their friendship and their lives.

It matters not who you are born to... but where you are made!

'Rich, atmospheric, original...One of my favourite historical novels' Nat Reeve, Nettleback

'An exuberant novel for fans of the gothic and the unlikely'. The Times

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Emma Hinds
Förlag: Faber & Faber
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 368 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 129x198x24 mm
Vikt: 251 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9781915798916
SKU: 704324