Description
| Product ID: | 9780007178360 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Burning Bright |
| Authors: | Author: Tracy Chevalier |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Historical fiction, London, Greater London, Dorset, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘A visual delight’ The Times ‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times ‘A visual delight’ The Times‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times‘Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?’1792. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution.Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they’ve been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Jem and Maggie’s passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration… |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-02-04 |
