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'To find a creature part eel, part African lion, who steps the tightrope, plays the viola, frightens the ladies and sings like a nightingale. This is my task. I must conjure, procure and invent, as a novelty is only novel once and no success succeeds as surely as failure fails. ' London 1879 - In a gloomy room on Islington's backstreets showman Percy Unusual George dreams of the miracle that will change his fortunes and that of his troupe of performing Remarkables. This waking dream will lead him to an infamous French dwarf, an exiled Polish king, and a superstar of the Enlightenment... and alter the course of his life forever. France 1746-1764 - At the court of Luneville, in the Alsace region of Lorraine, exiled Polish King Stanislas hosts grand parties for the French nobility and luminaries of the Enlightenment. While Voltaire dotes on his lover, Emilie du Chatelet, the Polish king presents his horrified queen with a gift of an infant dwarf from the Vosges Mountains. King Stanislas names the child Bebe, and watches indulgently as his protege becomes the most notorious and celebrated dwarf in France, until an unexpected guest arrives and unforeseen tragedy follows. Two ambitious men. One hundred years apart. Kitty Aldridge entwines their stories to powerful effect in this astonishingly imaginative and daring novel. THE WISDOM OF BONES is a high-wire performance: a hypnotic tale of desire and ambition, a quest for celebrity, and the human ache to be loved and remembered. 'Time runs backwards and I see myself anew. Not a man but a child. Not English but French. Not here but there. And I am stranger than a sphinx.'

About the Author :
Kitty Aldridge trained as an actor at Drama Centre, London, and went on to work in theatre, film and television for fifteen years as an actor and writer. In her thirties she began to write fiction. Her previous three novels have been shortlisted and longlisted for various fiction awards, and her short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize in 2011. She is currently working on a fifth book which forms part of MSt postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge.

Review :
If literary London can lionise Zadie Smith, it should pay Kitty Aldridge the same compliment. She has star quality - Sunday Telegraph Kitty Aldridge is a real discovery, a writer of precision, delicacy and wit. - Salman Rushdie One of the most talented prose writers I have read in years - Carol Ann Duffy, Daily Telegraph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781472154392
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Corsair
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Weight: 460 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1472154398
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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