5/13/2023 0 Comments The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley![]() ![]() ![]() Years pass and Joe is gifted his freedom, acquires a job and receives a postcard posted eighty years previously containing the image of the Eilean Mor lighthouse which had only been completed mere months before – and the gorgeous message There, Joe is claimed by his owner and he discovers that he is a slave and married somewhat unhappily to his brother’s widow. Joe Tournier is our anchor and point of view protagonist, an amnesiac wandering through the railway station lost until a gentleman helped to take him to hospital where he was diagnosed with epileptic amnesia. So, we begin in 1898 in an alternate historical setting: the Gare du Roi, Londres, capital of an England that had lost the Battle of Trafalgar ninety-three years earlier and had become a French colonial possession under French rule, speaking French and not yet having abolished slavery. It is a novel that is bubbling away in my imagination as I sit at the keyboard! ![]() Whilst it took a while to get into, this is a novel which will linger just as long as Pulley’s other time-twisting magical historical offerings. ![]()
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