The Alchemist_s Daughter - Softcover
The Alchemist’s Daughter will pull you from whatever you are supposed to be doing into Sidonie’s fortunes, and hold you there cover to cover.Marked by high adventure, and delicious language, Kernaghan’s use of real historical figures like Dr. John Dee, Lady Mary Herbert, Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare, blended with original fictional characters are a powerful mix, while her impeccable research allows you to learn something of an age that has long held a spell over contemporary readers.
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About the Author:
"Wild Talent: a novel of the supernatural" is Kernaghan's eighth book in the historical fantasy genre. "The /Snow Queen" ((Thistledown, 2001)) won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, the Aurora, for best speculative novel in English, and "The Alchemist's Daughter" ((Thistledown 2004)) was shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Prize for Children's Literature. EILEEN KERNAGHAN lives in New Westminster, British Columbia.
Review:
"(Eileen Kernaghan's) characters live in the richly detailed Elizabethan world of astrology, fortune-telling, beggars, tricksters, poets, lunatics and lovers." -- Victoria Times Colonist, December 12, 2004
"... vivid descriptions of the haunting beauty of Glastonbury and exotic splendors of Twelfth Night revels at Greenwich palace..." -- SFRevu, October 2004
"Eileen Kernaghan... has created characters who are very real, yet slightly whimsical, in a setting that feels historically accurate." -- The SFSite, December 17, 2004
"This brief and witty historical novel, with overtones of fantasy, is both intellectual and entertaining." -- Endicott Studio Featured Young Adult Novels 2004-5
"... vivid descriptions of the haunting beauty of Glastonbury and exotic splendors of Twelfth Night revels at Greenwich palace..." -- SFRevu, October 2004
"Eileen Kernaghan... has created characters who are very real, yet slightly whimsical, in a setting that feels historically accurate." -- The SFSite, December 17, 2004
"This brief and witty historical novel, with overtones of fantasy, is both intellectual and entertaining." -- Endicott Studio Featured Young Adult Novels 2004-5
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- PublisherThistledown Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1894345797
- ISBN 13 9781894345798
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages144
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