Darker than dark but tonally lighter than light, this is a keeper and a bolt from nowhere, almost like an adult version of the Harry Potter books with a touch of Dickensian dystopia. Set in a Victorian England that never was, in which a person's evil thoughts and intentions manifest themselves through the black, heavy smoke that emanates from their body, this follows the discoveries and personal odysseys of a group of boarding school lodgers whose connection to the mystery of smoke is highly personal as they set on a quest to elucidate its origins and the web of conspiracies that surround the way the whole country is influenced by it.
Evocative, a vision of a pre-industrialised Britain both pastoral and ominous, a London teeming with sin and horror, and a set of characters you keep cheering on in spite of their foibles and impetuosity, this is an old-fashioned book in the best way and a sheer delight. It will also scare the pants off of you in the process and have you averting your eyes even when you are dying to know what comes next and get an answer to all your questions (which you will by the end...). ~ Maxim Jakubowski
The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it. A fleeting thought of evil may pass unseen.
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The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it.
Smoke features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
Paperback, Hardback, Ebook. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
Smoke was written by Dan Vyleta and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
Smoke has 433 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
