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Set in Oxford in the 1660's - a time and place of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment - this remarkable novel centers around a young woman Sarah Blundy, who stands accused or the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of the blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologian and inveterate plotter; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written, utterly convincing, gripping from the first page to the last. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force. | "Anyone who reads this will want to tell their friends about
it... This is a novel that combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the
intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco...don't let it pass by unread" ~
Sunday Times ~ "Brilliantly researched and imagined...a remarkable achievement" ~ Sunday Telegraph ~ |
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Books by Iain Pears are:
An
Instance of the Fingerpost.
I especially like the experiments, and "anatomizing".
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