The Kingdoms by Pulley, Natasha

Description

Author: Pulley, NatashaFantasyPublished on 17 February 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 448 pages179 x 246 x 30 | 308g
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVELFor fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetOriginal, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end Catriona WardCome home, if you rememberThe postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter.But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed a world where English is spoken in England, and not French.And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well.Joes journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time itself as he battles for his life and for a very different future.