The Alchemist's Daughter

by Katharine McMahon | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0753821311 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Xeyra of Seixal, Setúbal Portugal on 4/3/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by Xeyra from Seixal, Setúbal Portugal on Thursday, April 3, 2008
Dark secrets haunt the manor house at Selden in Buckinghamshire, where Emilie Selden, motherless, fiercely intelligent and beautiful, has been raised in near isolation by her father. John Selden, student of Isaac Newton, is conducting a secret experiment. He aims to turn Emilie into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist and fills her with knowledge while recording every step she takes. In the spring of 1725, when Emilie is eighteen, father and daughter begin their most daring adventure - an attempt to breathe life into dead matter. But they are interrupted by the arrival of two strangers. During the course of a sultry August, Emilie is caught up in the passion of first love and, listening for the first time to her heart rather than her head, she makes her choice...with consequences that are far-reaching and tumultuous.

Journal Entry 2 by Xeyra from Seixal, Setúbal Portugal on Friday, June 13, 2008
Enjoyable and romantic, this was a very nice read, though some of the alchemical terms got me a bit confused at first. Some of the character motivations and behaviours were hard to understand and sometimes frustrating, and the ending was a bit abrupt and left much to the imagination. However, I enjoyed it very much.

This edition seems to have quite a lot of typos, though.

Sending today to tranq1, who took it out of the Historical Fiction VBB.

Journal Entry 3 by tranq1 from Tampa, Florida USA on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Received in the mail today. Thank you Xeyra.

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