The Alchemist's Daughter
A Novel
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Justine Eyre
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Katharine McMahon
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In the spring of 1725, father and daughter begin their most daring alchemical experiment to date: they will attempt to breathe life into dead matter. But their work is interrupted by the arrival of two strangers: one a researcher, the other a dazzling young merchant. During the course of a sultry August, while her father is away, Emilie experiences the passion of first love. Listening to her heart rather than her head, she makes a choice.
Banished to London and plunged headlong into a society that is both glamorous and ruthless, Emilie discovers that for all her extraordinary education she has no insight into the workings of the human heart. When she tries to return to the world of books and study, she instead unravels a shocking secret that sets her on her true journey to enlightenment.
The Alchemist's Daughter is a gripping, evocative tale. Set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century London society, it is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey through a world of mystery, passion, and obsession.
©2006 Katharine McMahon (P)2006 Books on Tape
Kritikerstimmen
"McMahon doesn't shy away from the Enlightenment's darker sides, giving this popular historical a satisfying gravity." (Publishers Weekly)
"Emilie may be a classic fairy-tale heroine on the surface, but this Sleeping Beauty has depth and an increasingly self-aware intelligence." (The Washington Post Book World)