The Wave Theory of Angels - Hardcover

Alison MacLeod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024114261X ISBN 13: 9780241142615

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Synopsis

France. 1284. The cathedral of St Pierre climbs higher and higher over the town of Beauvais. In the heat of an August night, Christina beekeeper, sister of Marguerite, daughter of the heretic and sculptor Giles of Beauvais struggles to keep a secret. The year is also 2001. We're in Chicago, city of towers and home to Fermilab, the world-renowned physics lab. Here Christina Carver, daughter of rebel physicist, Dr Giles Carver, also keeps a secret even from her sister Maggie. When a bell rings for matins when a telephone rings in the middle of the night Christina will fail to wake and all six lives will change forever. In the days that follow, each will be forced to confront what is real and what is not in a world that is precarious, relative and unrelentingly mysterious. This is a story that unfolds across two far-flung centuries and across two worlds. In each, the lives of a father and his two daughters are about to be catapulted into crisis ...

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Review:

'...a fascinating exploration of the point where science and fantasy appear to meet.' The Independent -- The Independent, October 11, 2005

'Part thriller, part philosophical treatise, The Wave Theory of Angels explores some intriguing ideas...quite wonderful.' -- Time Out, August 3, 2005

'a daring investigation of medieval philosophy, modern-day physics, and the relation of both to faith and desire' -- Times Literary Supplement, August 12, 2005

About the Author:

Alison MacLeod is the author of the novel The Changeling. Her short stories have been published by Prospect, London Magazine, Pulp.Net and Virago. Her collection, Live Wire, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2006. She lives in Brighton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 024114261X
• ISBN 13: 9780241142615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304