Arcadia

by Iain Pears

A captivating adventure story with huge heart and dazzling imaginative power, from the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.


Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future - or the past?

In the basement of a professor's house in 1960s Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world.

Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers, prophecies and ritual. But is this world real - and what happens if she decides to stay?

Meanwhile, in a sterile laboratory, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist - with potentially devastating consequences.

• ISBN10: 057130155X
• ISBN13: 9780571301553
• Publish Date: 3 September 2015 (first published 1 September 2015)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 7 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Faber & Faber
• Edition: Main
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 608
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

A totally delightful time-travel story that takes place in three different time periods - with the added twist that one of the time periods was created out of a fictional setting written by one of the characters. It is clever and hilarious and with many surprises and a satisfying ending. It felt like a close cousin to Connie Willis' time travel series but without her familiar quirks.