The Undying of Obedience Wellrest
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Undying of Obedience Wellrest
By (Author) Nicholas Bowling
Chicken House Ltd
Chicken House Ltd
1st June 2024
9th November 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
Young Adult
Fiction
Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fantasy
Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Classic horror and ghost stories
Children's / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past
Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Children's / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
Children's / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures
Children's / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
Magic, spells and alchemy
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 194mm, Height 130mm, Spine 30mm
220g
Description
A mesmering Gothic mystery from Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling. 'Nicholas Bowling is a thrilling writer' THE TELEGRAPH To the horror ofyoung 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,ObedienceWellrest. But 16-year-old Obedience has troublesofher own: her loving but overbearing father, andhis wish to see her married toa rich man of science,Phineas Mordaunt. 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 Bowling
