![]() ![]() ![]() Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie. “Those who admired Chevalier's atmospheric evocation of 17th-century Delft will find much to enjoy in her vivid reconstruction of late 18th-century London. In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. “Burning Bright is an ambitious, impressively-researched novel…You can almost smell the smoke and mildewed clothes, see the gaunt, pock-marked faces of people struggling to survive and sense Jem's wonder as he gazes across the murky Thames to a perplexing world.” DAILY EXPRESS “A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London.” SUNDAY TIMES ![]() Jem and Maggie's passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration… Together they encounter the neighbour they've been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution. When he was 4, he had his first vision, and screamed when he saw God thrust His. Father a haberdasher, selling gloves and stockings and such in Soho. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. Lived all his life in London, apart from 3 years in Felpham, a little village on the southern coast near Bognor Regis. ‘Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?'ġ792. ![]()
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