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The Countenance Divine
Michael Hughes
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Description for The Countenance Divine
Paperback. An ambitious, engrossing and multi-layered debut novel Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby Litt In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns. And in 1666 poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic ... Read more
'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby Litt In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns. And in 1666 poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473636514
SKU
V9781473636514
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99-10
About Michael Hughes
Michael Hughes was born and raised in Keady, Northern Ireland, and now lives in London. He attended St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, and read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He trained in theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, and has worked for many years as an actor, under the professional name Michael Colgan. He studied creative writing ... Read more
Reviews for The Countenance Divine
This is an intricate and densely allusive novel . . . It marks the arrival of a considerable talent
Guardian
A novel of big ideas that flows, and reads, like a dream. Solid yet sinuous, and very satisfying
Gavin Corbett
A strange, witty and dazzlingly clever fable on art, ambition and morality
Sarah Perry
... Read more
Guardian
A novel of big ideas that flows, and reads, like a dream. Solid yet sinuous, and very satisfying
Gavin Corbett
A strange, witty and dazzlingly clever fable on art, ambition and morality
Sarah Perry
... Read more