Nonesuch
Spufford, Francis, 1964-2026
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It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war, and everybody knows it. On a final night of abandon, Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young financial secretary (and 'not an entirely good girl'), pursues a one-night stand. Some people, if you make the mistake of sleeping with them, leave you with a rash, or regrets. It seems that sleeping with young Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBC's nascent television unit, leaves you pursued by a creature from another world. As Britain threatens to fall apart and the Nazi bombs descend, Iris finds herself stepping off the known world's edge, into a reality where otherworldly powers lurk and act, where spirits can be called and enslaved, where time can be warped and rewound, and where a magical fascist is plotting her path back in time, gun in hand, in search of Churchill, to fire a shot that will end the war before it ever began. Naturally, only Iris can stop her.
Main title:
Nonesuch / Francis Spufford.
Author:
Spufford, Francis, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2026.
Collation:
480 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780571397167 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6119.P84
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4326021
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