The House Of Storms

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 457 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small mark to cover from an old sticker.

Publishers Description: The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aethers extraordinary influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Age of Industry, that lay at Englands troubled heart. When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her sons disease. In desperation she travels to Einfell, to seek favour from one who once trusted her. And Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London, he is drawn away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fishermans daughter Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it sees itself. But Alice will not let love stand in the way of her in her insatiable lust for power - nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war. An astonishing work of imagination, Ian R. Macleod has created a truly original world, one that is strangely recognizable and yet utterly new, an England made of magic, but set amongst familiar hills and cities.

ISBN: 9780743256728