Katherine McMahon is the author of four previous novels. She has taught in secondary schools, performed in local theatre and worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow teaching writing skills at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Warwick. She lives in Hertfordshire.
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Emilie Selden is raised in seclusion by her father, who aims to turn her into a brilliant alchemist and natural philosopher. but her upbringing gives her little insight into the mysteries of the human heart.
During the sultry summer of 1725, their most daring experiment yet - an attempt to breathe new life into dead matter - is disrupted by the arrival of two fascinating strangers, and Emilie, caught up in the passion of first love, makes a fateful choice.
Her father's spell broken, she is banished to London. There, marooned by circumstance as well as by her extraordinary education, she discovers she has much to learn - about the darker recesses of human nature, and her own family's complicated past.
So begins her shocking journey to enlightenment...
The Alchemist's Daughter 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书