There is an intoxicating subtle magic in her books, and I spent the last few hours trying to wrap words around it. Her storytelling is so distinctive, so utterly inimitable in its style. That is to say-Pulley has a voice unlike any other. In the end, I am certain-if I may borrow some of Coleridge’s words-that I'd know a Natasha Pulley story if I found it wandering the desert. Lines that float back to me like bits of poetry. There are treasured passages I still recall, clear as day. It’s been months and I still can’t shake the rhythms and cadences of these stories out of my brain.
After reading The Kingdoms, I immediately purchased Pulley’s earlier novels, and recently raced through The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow and The Half Life of Valery K as if someone might take them from my hands at any moment. Natasha Pulley wrote this book specifically for me: everything about it was designed to fit precisely, perfectly into the contours of my heart. What a joy to feel that you are the writer’s intended reader. In the process, Joe will remake history, and himself.įrom bestselling author Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms is an epic, wildly original novel that bends genre as easily as it twists time. The search for M, though, will drive Joe from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battle ships of a lost empire's Royal Navy. Written in illegal English-instead of French-the postcard is signed only with the letter “M,” but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he's determined to find the writer. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England.
For fans of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and David Mitchell, a genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved.
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