A Marvellous Light
by Freya Marske
Buy on AmazonRed White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known.…
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"A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske is incandescent. In this historical fantasy of manners and magicians, Robin is the new liaison to a secret magical society he has just found out exists. He’s quickly embroiled in the mystery of his predecessor’s disappearance, helped reluctantly by his icy magical counterpart, Edwin. The prose is exquisite, the world-building rich and the magic system so good. The romance is also – ahem – very good. Do you like stories that drip with yearning? A book you might read on a train, pausing only to textscream about some new beauty? That you’ll immediately reread? This is it. Fog-faced menaces, houses with character, magical hedgemazes, romance – go read!"
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