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Gifts : A Novel by Liz Hyder (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-101728271703
ISBN-139781728271705
eBay Product ID (ePID)9057274099
Product Key Features
Book TitleGifts : a Novel
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMagical Realism, Literary, Gothic
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorLiz Hyder
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight23.9 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-050960
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Readers who like the early-Victorian-era setting and feisty female characters will enjoy this book." -- Booklist, "Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it." -- Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars, "Remarkable...Hyder skillfully juggles the many threads, never slowing the momentum of her propulsive plot, and by blending realistic and fantastic elements, she perfectly captures the era's uneasy attempts to marry faith and science. This memorable outing has special appeal for fans of fantasy-inflected historicals such as Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent." -- Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, "I devoured The Gifts , eager to find out the fate of its wonderfully drawn characters. A wonderful, atmospheric book that immersed me in the dirty streets of nineteenth century London and swept me away to the hills of Shropshire. A real gem." -- Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets, "Fierce and touching, this extremely compelling novel follows its female protagonists through 19th century London where a surgeon struggles with the dark lure of scientific ambition while his marriage crumbles, a journalist pursues the mystery of the angel fished from the Thames and two young women find themselves inexplicably transformed in the depths of despair. Beautiful and riveting." -- Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne, "A fascinating mélange of gothic fiction and magical realism, The Gifts unpacks the bizarre Victorian obsession with angels--celestial angels, the perfect domestic angel every man supposedly wanted in a wife, and the "alternate fact" that actual women could sometimes sprout actual wings...Hyder interweaves these [women's] stories in very short chapters, each a miniature jewel of world-building, unique characterization, and dramatic intrigue." -- Historical Novel Society, "A remarkable tale of ambition, faith, and survival, a blend of historical fiction and fantasy from a deft storyteller...a sumptuous reading experience." -- BookPage, "I devoured The Gifts, eager to find out the fate of its wonderfully drawn characters. A wonderful, atmospheric book that immersed me in the dirty streets of nineteenth century London and swept me away to the hills of Shropshire. A real gem." -- Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets
Synopsis"Remarkable...for fans of fantasy-inflected historicals such as Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "A sumptuous reading experience." --BookPage It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are... October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . . The Gifts is an astonishing novel, a spellbinding tale told through five different perspectives and set against the luminous backdrop of nineteenth century London, it explores science, nature and religion, enlightenment, the role of women in society and the dark danger of ambition., "Remarkable...for fans of fantasy-inflected historicals such as Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent ." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED review "A sumptuous reading experience." -- BookPage It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are... October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . . The Gifts is an astonishing novel, a spellbinding tale told through five different perspectives and set against the luminous backdrop of nineteenth century London, it explores science, nature and religion, enlightenment, the role of women in society and the dark danger of ambition.
LC Classification NumberPR6108.Y43G54 2023
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