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Burning Bright

By: Tracy Chevalier
Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett
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‘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…

“A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London.” SUNDAY TIMES

“A visual delight.” THE TIMES

“Burning Bright is an ambitious, impressively-researched novel…You can almost smell the smoke and mildewed clothes, see the gaunt, pock-marked faces of people struggling to survive and sense Jem's wonder as he gazes across the murky Thames to a perplexing world.” DAILY EXPRESS

“Those who admired Chevalier's atmospheric evocation of 17th-century Delft will find much to enjoy in her vivid reconstruction of late 18th-century London.” GUARDIAN

“Passionate and compelling.” INSTYLE©2007 Tracy Chevalier (P)2013 AudioGO Ltd.
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