An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears - 2011
By: Iain Pears
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Roger May, Christopher Oxford, David McAlister
Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 26-07-2011
Language: English
Genre: Crime & Thrillers, Mysteries
Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd
Format: mp3 64/24 stereo
Publisher's Summary
Set in Oxford in the 1660s – a time and place of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment – this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles 1l a mathematician, theologican and inveterate plotter; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth.
©1997 Iain Pears (P)2011 Isis Publishing Ltd
Critic Reviews
"Deftly plotted, briskly written...Iain Pears has brass and talent to spare." (Newsweek)
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