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Rotherweird

Part of the Rotherweird series
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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...

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Product Details
Jo Fletcher Books
1635061539 / 9781635061536
Hardback
30/07/2019
United Kingdom
480 pages
165 x 244 mm, 721 grams