Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I

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Release Date:June 16th, 2017 (Rotherweird), May 31st, 2018 (Wyntertide), May 16th, 2019 (Lost Acre) Rotherweird series is wonderful, gothic, eccentric, and very British – a village cut off from the rest of […] Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird - deeply buried secrets and all . . .

Never straying far from a cup of tea, Miss Lawrence is an audiobook reviewer, writer, editor, and the resident librarian of a lively audiobook discussion group for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Above all, the novel is a lodestone to its own Lost Acre: Englishness. Echoes of Shakespeare's John of Gaunt and Tolkien's Shire, both written during conflict, ring through gardener Hayman Salt's lovely paeon to a bluebell wood: "This was old, forgotten England". But which England is Salt talking about? The hub of innovation and artistry that birthed "the educated Elizabethan mind" which so delights Rotherweird's beguiling ninja-physicist, Vixen Valourhand? Or a post-Brexit isolation chamber, perched on the edge of a new doom? Perils of whimsy The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, theavant gardescience and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, butnobody, studies the town or its history. In this final story we discover the true identities and allegiances of the few characters who remained mysterious in the wake of book two, and the balance of the battle swung wildly from one chapter to the next. Rotherweird's fate was in jeopardy to the last, and not all of my favourites made it to the end as they fought the ancient, sinister forces seeking to take over the land. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Audible Summary: " Wynter is here.... Geryon Wynter has returned to Rotherweird and has not only taken over the town but is busy destroying the countrysiders' life too. Nothing More Than a Press Strategy": Johnny Depp Loses Libel Suit Appeal". Vanity Fair. 25 March 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2022. This lends a certain haziness to the cast, despite the vivid descriptions; a quality reinforced by Caldecott’s restless, mayfly viewpoint. Frequently – though never in the spare, subtler “old history” sections, which gracefully unravel the town’s necromantic origins - I found myself yearning for more inner time with its inhabitants, particularly those caught in the story’s gnarlier moral nodes.

Four and a half centuries on, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it must never be rediscovered, still less reused. While there is plenty to savour in this engrossing debut, some of Caldecott’s storytelling choices come at a cost. Occasionally, whimsy threatens to overwhelm – we’re told punning is one character’s forte, but actually it’s an occupational hazard for all Rotherweirders. Similarly, when we might expect anagram fiend Marmon Finch to solve a central mystery, it’s another character who does.

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Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird. Some say they are the golden generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows they are something to be revered - and feared. Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties,’ Hilary Mantel Rotherweird is twisted, arcane murder-mystery with shades of Deborah Harkness, Hope Mirrlees and Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best. In its fantastical logic, Rotherweird is always coherent, but how it speaks to the non-fantastical is often sublime. It understands history and the perils of historical amnesia. While arguing for science, it delicately distils the ethical quandaries of tinkering with Nature, summoning the spectres of agribusiness, GM foods, deforestation and species extinction with allusive, devastating simplicity: "They do many things to living things."