Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's best-selling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience.

Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet, and radical, William Blake. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. London 1792: The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's new novel Burning Bright sparkles with drama. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring.The wonderful new novel from the much-loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften.Īgainst the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. : Burning Bright (9780739488300) by Tracy Chevalier and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's novel 'Burning Bright' sparkles with drama. The historical novel Burning Bright is set in London 1792-3, and features the factual persons of William Blake and Philip Astley.

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier