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Item Details
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ARCADIA
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| By: |
Iain Pears |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
057130155X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571301553 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
26 August, 2015 |
| Pages: |
608 |
| Description: |
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? |
| Synopsis: |
This is a captivating adventure story with huge heart and dazzling imaginative power, from the best-selling 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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