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A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy--the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century--remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother's book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth's house--a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day…
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6 editions- Paperback · English · 2008Spiegel & Grau · 368 pages · 9780385521079
- Ebook · English · 2007Random House Publishing Group · 9780385523257
- Audiobook · English · 2007RH Audio · 9780739343043
- Hardcover · English · 2007Spiegel & Grau · 307 pages · 9780385521062
- Other · English · 2007Random House Large Print · 9780739327203
- Other · English · 2007Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 290 pages · 9780297851363
LiteratureDetective and mystery storiesFictionAlchemyCollege teachersEnglish Women authorsLarge type booksNew York Times reviewed










