Rotherweird

By Andrew Caldecott

Book Overview

"Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful--not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book" --M. R. Carey, author of the best-selling The Girl With All the Gifts
"Compelling... the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts." --The Guardian
1558: Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird. Some say they are the Golden Generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows they are to be revered--and feared.
Four and a half centuries later, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: no one, but no one studies the town or its history.
Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparalleled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird--deeply buried secrets and all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635061539
• ISBN13: 9781635061536
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Jo Fletcher
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"