Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
- Rotherweird
- Andrew Caldecott
- Page: 480
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781635061536
- Publisher: Quercus
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Overview
"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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