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Curiosities : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Anne Fleming

Book ID: 115030222
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Year: 2024
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 553 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781039004986

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✦ Synopsis

"Curiosities is pure delight. Anne Fleming draws us in so that we feel we are living the characters' lives, whether braving the North Atlantic on a sailing ship, or stealing away for a forbidden tryst in the English countryside. And she does it all with a light touch that has the reader dancing through peril and pleasure." --Ann-Marie MacDonald
"Curiosities arrives like a little sun from another period to warm the reader with the joy and pleasure of knowledge, even as it illuminates the terrors and confusion that arise from ignorance. Wonders and disasters tumble over fractured lives and loves, but Fleming's conjuring of the past alive in our present is so deft and sure it might be witchcraft. I loved this book." --Marina Endicott
This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into the murkier corners of England in the 1600s. In an archive, Anne has...

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