The undying of Obedience Wellrest
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Ned works as a gravekeeper with his grandfather. Ned’s odd life is disrupted when graves are disturbed and an attractive young woman, Obedience Wellrest, starts visiting the cemetery. A mystery of science and magic unravels – and no-one is quite as they seem …
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A mesmering Gothic mystery from Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling.Â
‘Nicholas Bowling is a thrilling writer’ THE TELEGRAPH
To the horror of young gravedigger, Ned, body-snatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the dead of night. Until now, he’d been daydreaming about another visitor - daughter of the manor, Obedience Wellrest.
But 16-year-old Obedience has troubles of her own: her loving but overbearing father, and his wish to see her married to a rich man of science, Phineas Mordaunt.Â
But when Mordaunt starts to poke his nose into her family history – in particular, the ruinous research of late Uncle Herbert – Obedience enters into a dangerous game of Death, and Ned might be the only person who can save her ?
- A mesmerising tale of magic, death and science, wrapped up in a delicious Gothic mystery
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell meets Dangerous Remedy – for young adult readers
- From highly acclaimed Costa Award-shortlisted author, Nicholas BowlingÂ
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