Burning Bright

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Flames & funerals circus feats & seduction neighbours & nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution a surprising bond forms between Jem the youngest Kellaway boy & streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour the printer poet & radical William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem & Maggie navigate the unpredictable exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus & Essie Fox's Somnambulist.