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Chargement... The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley: The spellbinding BBC Between the Covers book club pick (édition 2023)par Sean Lusk (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "What is youth but the mainspring of a timepiece freshly wound, measuring the hours perfectly, ignorant that time must, sooner or later, outpace the tick and tock of his heart, leaving a man to rot until even his bones are turned to dust." Thank you NetGalley and Random Things Tours for the chance to read and review The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk! The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley came out on the 9th of June and was published by Transworld Publishers, a Penguin imprint. It’s 355 pages long and Sean Lusk’s debut novel. The book is a standalone novel that borders on historical fiction/fantasy, action, and literary fiction. It’s also a great read for Pride month, but I won’t tell you how! While the blurb is lovely, The Second Sight easily has one of the most magical covers I’ve seen in a while! The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley is set in 18th century London and Istanbul. It’s the story of loss and love and the ways in which love and loss can make us hurt the people we care about the most. It’s a well researched book and I love that the inspiration came from an English clock in Istanbul! Zachary’s upbringing is an unusual one; with birds and clocks; fitting though, because he is an unusual boy, clever at understanding things just beyond the reach of others. "‘Mrs Margesson is possessed once again,’ he says cheerfully. ‘Is it the devil this time, or her late husband?’ ‘Only the devil on this occasion, I’m pleased to say.’" After a terrible accident his father sends him away to live with his maternal great aunt and travels to Istanbul to unthought off consequences. As Zachary grows up and can see things that others can’t, things that turn out to be true, he travels to his father, long since presumed dead, to try and bring him home. "Any fool can teach belief." There was no uninteresting character in this story. Each of them is lovely and real and intensely human and fallible, from Abel and Zachary, his grandmother, Lenora and Mrs Morley, and Tom. I also felt a little sad to imagine that Zachary could see so many things when he touched a persons hand, but couldn’t see what his great aunt had been thinking about for so many years. I also feel bad for Lenore, because I genuinely feel like Mrs Morley will be pretty overbearing and I want her to be able to strike out on her own amidst such strong personalities. "Is this moment not your answer?" aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In 1754, renowned maker of clocks and automata Abel Cloudesley must raise his new-born son Zachary when his wife dies in childbirth. Growing up amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary is intensely curious, ferociously intelligent, unwittingly funny and always honest - perhaps too honest. But when a fateful accident leaves six-year-old Zachary nearly blinded, Abel is convinced that the safest place for his son is in the care of his eccentric Aunt Frances and her menagerie of weird and wonderful animals. So when a precarious job in Constantinople is offered to him, Abel has no reason to say no. A job presented to him by a politician with dubious intentions, Abel leaves his son, his workshop and London behind. The decision will change the course of his life forever. Since his accident, Zachary is plagued by visions that reveal the hearts and minds of those around him. A gift at times and a curse at others, it is nonetheless these visions that will help him complete a journey that he was always destined to make - to travel across Europe to Constantinople and find out what happened to his father all those years ago. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book is such a joy! The plot is preposterous but works so well, the characters are eccentric in their own ways yet the whole is life-affirming and a delight to read. ( )