![]() ![]() Two of these narrators are lifted intact from the history of the times. Last is the historian Anthony Wood, a mousy and passionate man whose story provides the key with which the book's mysteries, so carefully established, are finally solved. ![]() World throbs with conspiracy and intrigue. Wallis, mathematician and code-breaker, a man for whom the whole Next is Jack Prescott, a student at the university obsessed with clearing his father's name from a charge of treason. First is Marco da Cola, who portrays himself as an affable innocent Four very different voices tell the story in separate, novel-length testimonies. It is also the dawn of the Enlightenment.įor almost 700 pages, Pears spins an intricate narrative web around the murder of an obnoxious Oxford don. ![]() It is a time of sects, witch hunts and conspiracies. The civil war is over one king has lost his head, another is newly restored He world of Iain Pears's new novel is the muddy, war-battered England of the 17th century. The death of an Oxford don in 17th-century England uncovers other mysteries. ![]()
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