The great unknown
Kingman, Peg2020
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In this immersive novel set in 1840s Britain and France, questions of identity probe at the essence of what it means to be human. A wet nurse goes by an assumed name but longs to know the identity of her father. A quarryman furtively extricates a remarkable fossil from an island off the Northumberland coast and smuggles it abroad to Paris. A sensational best-selling book triggers widespread argument and speculation-but its author's name is a secret. Another book, roundly ignored, sets forth the principle that will become the centrepiece of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. All these threads-some historical, others fictional-converge and illuminate one another in unexpected ways in the climactic revelations of this brilliant story.
Main title:
The great unknown / Peg Kingman.
Author:
Kingman, Peg, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]©2020
Collation:
324 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781324003366 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
373403
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | KING | Available |