Farperoo: Book One of the Dark Inventions: v. 1 - Hardcover

Lamb, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954835611 ISBN 13: 9780954835613

Publisher: Mark Lamb, 2005

Synopsis

Dare to enter a fabulous tale of angelic magick, dark ritual and strange, inedible food. Thirteen year old Lucy Blake is an orphan with a talent for telling lies, or as she prefers to call them, inventions. Our heroine has the power to move between worlds and can conjure changes in reality simply by telling stories. Not that her life isn t interesting enough already. Before her fourteenth birthday comes round she s going to steal a priceless work of art and find herself pitched in combat with the winged hordes of heaven. An evil angel has kidnapped Lucy s friend Fenny, but the mistress-of-lies has a few problems of her own. Her wafer-thin stepmother wants the family boarding house, and is prepared to have her lying stepdaughter committed to an insane asylum in order to get it. And the despicable Doctor Veraciter is only too willing to help, because he s noticed something interesting about Lucy s lies. Bentley Priory, a penniless private detective, thinks the talent might be linked to Lucy s real mother, who vanished from a locked room years ago and has never been seen since. In a move that soon has the police on her trail, Lucy comes into possession of a manuscript that existed before the world was created. Raziel, the angel reputed to have written the book, is prepared to do anything to get it back, and Lucy and her friends are forced to flee into a sinister world known as Assiah, where even the handbags aren't quite what they seem. Surrounded by tales of lost rivers, fabled dragons and mythical cities, they explore a strange world of shew stones, talking maps, and truth cabinets. What exactly is the Light and where did it come from? Will we ever discover the identity of the Grand Architect of the Universe? And who are equally mysterious Sisters of Perpetual Mercy? Why are they so interested in Lucy that they're willing to destroy an entire world in order to get their hands on her?

About this title

From the Publisher

This is the first volume of a dark, epic tale, whose multi-level plot and deep characterisations will leave readers of all ages absolutely spellbound.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mark Lamb
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954835611
• ISBN 13: 9780954835613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544