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378 pp.
| Abrams/Amulet |
May, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4197-1895-3$17.95
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YA
Everything in this audacious novel is on the cusp or in limbo, setting up delicious tensions and thematic riches. The time is nineteenth-century England; the setting is a fictional island; the main character is a fourteen-year-old girl caught between society's expectations and her fierce desire to be a scientist. Hardinge maintains masterful control of the whole complex construct. A stunner.