For fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins, a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author, that takes us from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish lighthouse and back through time itself.
'Original, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end'- Catriona Ward
Come home, if you remember.
The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse – Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.
Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter.
But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed – a world where English is spoken in England, and not French.
And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well.
Joe’s journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time as he battles for his life – and for a very different future.
This book was not for me at all. I had high hopes because it sounds like a book I would love. It's got time travel, different timelines, and in the summary, it mentions for fans of 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle which I loved. It was nothing like that except the amnesia part. I found the pacing extremely slow. The entire 200+ pages in the middle were just tough to get through. I found the writing hard to follow too. The ending was good but it took me almost 20 days to read this. This is a book that many others love but clearly not for me.
