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. Joe's journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time itself as he battles for his life – and for a very different future.What a joy to feel that you are the writer’s intended reader. And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well. But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed – a world where English is spoken in England, and not French. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. Joe has never left England, never even left London.
On the front is a lighthouse – Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVEL For fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street 'Original, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end' - Catriona Ward Come home, if you remember The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier.
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