The Nature of Monsters - Couverture rigide

Clark, Clare

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670915327 ISBN 13 : 9780670915323

Editeur : Viking, 2007

Synopsis

Physical description; 381 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Teenage girls -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction. Drugstores -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction. London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark.

1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary’s maid, a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child from scandal. But why is the apothecary so eager to welcome her when he already has a maid, a half-wit named Mary? Why is Eliza never allowed to look her veiled master in the face or go into the study where he pursues his experiments? It is only on her visits to the Huguenot bookseller who supplies her master’s scientific tomes that she realizes the nature of his obsession. And she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what remains of her reputation. From the highly-acclaimed author of The Great Stink comes a gloriously-written tale of consuming passions and obsessions. Set against the clamour and roar of eighteenth-century London, The Nature of Monsters brings vividly to life a world where the line separating science and madness is dangerously blurred, and where a single life counts for little in the relentless pursuit of progress.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670915327
• ISBN 13: 9780670915323
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400