Ghostwalk

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Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy— the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century—remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother's book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth's house—a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day Cambridge, which escalates to a series of murders, may have its origins in the troubhng evidence that Elizabeth's research has unearthed. As Lydia becomes ensnared in a dangerous conspiracy that reawakens ghosts of the past, the seventeenth century slowly seeps into the twenty-first, with the city of Cambridge the bridge between them.
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Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy— the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century—remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother's book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth's house—a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day Cambridge, which escalates to a series of murders, may have its origins in the troubhng evidence that Elizabeth's research has unearthed. As Lydia becomes ensnared in a dangerous conspiracy that reawakens ghosts of the past, the seventeenth century slowly seeps into the twenty-first, with the city of Cambridge the bridge between them.
Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton's scientific innovations, Ghostmalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton's alchemy. In it, time and relationships are entangled—the present with the seventeenth century, and figures from the past with the love-torn twenty-first-century woman who is trying to discover their secrets.
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A stunningly original display of scholarship and imagination, and a gripping story of desire and obsession, Ghostypalk is a rare debut that will change the way most of us think about scientific innovation, the force of history, and time itself.
Rebecca StOTT is a professor at Anglia Ruskin University and is affiliated with the Cambridge Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. She is the author of several books, including a biography, Darwin and the Barnacle^ and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio. She lives in Cambridge, England. This is her first novel.
www.ghostwalkbook.com www.spiegelandgrau.com
jacket design and photo illustration by honiwerner
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"A beautifully written book, mixing a compelling contemporary love story
and a fascinating historical investigation, with Isaac Newton and alchemy;'; ; playing a crucial role. The mystery at the novel's center is audacious, con-vincing, and will make readers think anew about what history is." '
— Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost
"Stott moves between past and present with the page-turning dexterity of a ht- ^ Ml erary alchemist—a novel of intrigue as cleverly imagined as it is entertaining." , —Joseph Kanon, author of The Good German, The Prodigal Spy, and Los Alamos
"A dangerous love story and mystery, where after a time neither the reader ¦ nor the heroine can tell what is true. You slip through the shimmering prose i and fall into the alchemy of Newton and certain unsolved crimes of his timej until you begin to wonder if what happened then can affect what might hap-'^ , pen now. Blending contemporary quantum physics with the winding streets^ of ancient Cambridge, Ghostrvalk is a highly intelligent and original novel."
— Stephanie CowELL, author of McAo/iW Coo^^' and The Phjsician of Londo^
"An amazing work—a highly intelligent thriller that combines the super^^J natural with modern quantum theory, the current war on terror withj i Isaac Newton's work on light and gravity, and his delving into alchemy in1 the seventeenth century. At once mind-boggling and mind-expanding." .
—Nicholas Mosley, author of Hopeful Monsters and Time at Wary
"This daring mystery tangles occult and scientific knowledge with obsessive love and hidden world events. It is wonderfully down to earth, and gen-, ,, uinely eerie. Once in, you are not likely to leave off reading until after the very last twist." —Dame Gillian Beer
US $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52106-2 IIIIMIII Hill Mil 52495 Vissza