The Last Days of Magic: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Tompkins, Mark

• Book ID: 109299484
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698405714

✦ Synopsis

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"Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins's amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride."**
-- KAREN JOY FOWLER
"Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange."
**-- GERALDINE BROOKS
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What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, The Last Days of Magic brilliantly imagines answers to these questions, sweeping us back to a world where humans and magical beings co-exist as they had for centuries.

Aisling, a goddess in human form, was born...