An exile and fugitive from England, Ned Warriner returns to his homeland in spite of the danger to search for his beloved, Kate Revill, unhappily married to an ardent anti-Catholic, and becomes caught up in the intrigues of the early seventeenth-century English court and the quest for the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. Reprint.
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"Remarkable, a glittering tale of London in 1795, full of science, intrigue, war, revolution and obsessive passion. Unputdownable" (Guardian)
"An engrossing read and a rich, pungent evocation of the period" (Observer)
"Striking and original...a star is born" (Literary Review)
"Richly atmospheric...quite wonderful" (USA Today)
A Jacobean tale of intrigue and alchemy by the author of the bestselling The Music of the Spheres.
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