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"Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful--not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book" --M. R. Carey, author of the best-selling The Girl With All the Gifts

"Compelling... the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts." --The Guardian

1558: Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird. Some say they are the Golden Generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows they are to be revered--and feared.

Four and a half centuries later, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: no one, but no one studies the town or its history.

Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparalleled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird--deeply buried secrets and all...

ISBN-13

9781784297619

ISBN-10

1784297615

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$26.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

480 pages

Publisher

Jo Fletcher Books

Published On

2019-07-30



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