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Auriel Rising - Softcover

Redfern, Elizabeth

 
9780515139426: Auriel Rising

Synopsis

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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Review

"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)

From the Publisher

A Jacobean tale of intrigue and alchemy by the author of the bestselling The Music of the Spheres.

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