Arcadia

Author: Pears, Iain

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 736

Release Date: 02-06-2016

Part Number: 24111118

Details: Product Description
Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers.

April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat -- and instead finds herself in a different world.

Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies. But is this world real -- and what happens if Rosie decides to stay?

Meanwhile, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist -- with potentially devastating consequences.

As the three worlds come together, one question arises: who controls the future -- or the past...?
Review
A tour de force of imagination. ―
FT

The finest pure storyteller working in popular fiction. ―
Malcolm Gladwell

A near-perfect take on the perils of a parallel universe. ―
Independent

Ambitious, amusing and very readable. ―
Spectator

A pleasure to read . . . Captivating. ―
Sydney Morning Herald

A rollicking good read. ―
Metro

A captivating literary thriller. ―
The Hobson, Auckland

In
Arcadia, the writing is assured, and Pears quickly draws the reader in with short, episodic chapters that quickly invite you on to the next section: if anything, the 10 opening scenarios are each so compelling that it would be easy to read them as 10 linear stories. ―
Irish Times
Book Description
An inventive, captivating and richly imagined new novel from bestselling writer Iain Pears. The novel will also be published as an interactive app.
About the Author
Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of
An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio and
Stone's Fall. He has also written several highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects.

EAN: 9780571301577

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English