Welcome to a world where every desire is visible,rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire,anger,greed. It is 1909 and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin,and some seek to silence it forever.Enter Eleanor,a young woman with a strange power over Smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England. Running from her uncle and home,she finds shelter in a New York theatre troupe.Then Nil,a thief hiding behind a self-effacing name. He's an orphan snatched from a jungle-home and suspects that a clue to his origins may lie hidden in the vaults of the mighty,newly-risen East India Company.And finally Thomas,one of the three people to release Smoke into the world. On a clandestine mission to India,he hopes to uncover the origins of Smoke and lay to rest his doubts about what he helped to unleash.In a story that crosses continents - from India to England's Minetowns - these three seek to control the power of Smoke. As their destinies entwine,a cataclysmic confrontation looms: the Smoke will either bind them together or forever rend the world.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474600965Number of pages: 560Weight: 380 gDimensions: 198 x 128 x 40 mm
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Daringly conceived and brilliantly executed,Soot is the follow-up to Smoke and just as gripping - an immersive epic with a high-gothic tang,imperial reach and filigree steampunk detailing.
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