Ghostwalk: A Novel

Ghostwalk: A Novel

In 2002, a Cambridge historian is found dead, floating down the river Cam, a glass prism in her hand, after researching a book about a series of suspicious circumstances surrounding Newton's appointment as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1667. That year, two Fellows died by falling down staircases, apparently drunk; another died in a field, apparently drunk; and a fourth was expelled, having gone madâ€“leaving vacancies for new appointments and paving the way for Newtonâ€™s extraordinary scientific discoveries. When Lydia Brooke, at the request of her ex-lover, the historianâ€™s son, steps in to finish the book, strange shows of light begin to play on the walls, and papers disappear only to reappear elsewhere. And when events escalate to murder, and Lydiaâ€™s rekindled romance appears increasingly implicated in the danger, the present becomes entangled with the seventeenth century, with Isaac Newton at the center of the mystery.

Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newtonâ€™s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers on a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered, involving Newtonâ€™s alchemy. A riveting literary thriller, Ghostwalk is a rare debut that will change the way most of us think about scientific innovation, our perception of time, and the force of history.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780385521079
Color Gold
ReleaseDate 2008-06-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385521079

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780385521079
Color	Gold
ReleaseDate	2008-06-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385521079

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