'This is the best kind of historical fiction: the past is freshly and energetically reimagined in Alix Nathan's intricate and interweaving tales. She cuts against cliche, against the received version, against cosiness. She leaves her reader restless, curious, wanting more. She is an original, with a virtuoso touch.' Hilary Mantel Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man; the boy who raises the tricolour on the White Tower; the famous comic actor with his selfdestructive craving for eel pies; and the labourer contracted to spend seven years locked up beneath a dilettante's country house. Meet Lappish women. Glimpse the picnic party of the Ottoman ambassador. A stunning new voice emerges with these strange and gemlike stories.
- ISBN10 1909844675
- ISBN13 9781909844674
- Publish Date 1 April 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Parthian Books
- Format eBook
- Language English