The Bone Hunters
Autor Joanne Burnen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2024
In 1824, Lyme Regis is as tumultuous as the sea that surrounds it. Wealthy holidaymakers dance in the Assembly Rooms whilst the poor riot over the price of bread, scientists do battle with theologists, and amidst it all, one woman is about to make an extraordinary discovery.
When twenty-four-year-old Ada Winters - poor, peculiar and brilliant - uncovers a set of unusual fossils on the cliffs, she believes she has found the answer to her scientific frustrations and her family's financial struggles.
Meanwhile, Doctor Edwin Moyle has come to Dorset in search of the discovery that will place him amongst the greatest geologists of the age. What he finds instead is a strange young woman who seems to hold the key to everything he seeks.
But what is the creature that Ada and Edwin seek to unearth? And will it be their means to greatness, or destruction?
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1408726513
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Notă biografică
Joanne Burn was born in Northampton in 1973, and now lives in the Peak District where she works as a writing coach. Her first novel, Petals and Stones, was published in 2018. The Hemlock Cure is her second novel.
She can found on Instagram at @joanne.burn and at www.joanneburn.com
Descriere
It is 1824, and the seaside resort of Lyme Regis is teeming with visitors seeking fun and pleasure for the summer. When 22-year-old Harriet unearths the fossilised bones of a giant sea monster, her incredible discovery brings her scientific ambitions tantalisingly within reach.
But as a working-class woman, she is invisible to the geological community to which she longs to belong. After she witnesses a violent crime, and a devastating disaster befalls her, she realises that all around her, monsters lurk.
Against all the advice of those who care for her, with revenge and justice in mind, she steps into a world as cold and dark as the ocean, as treacherous as the storm that is on its way.