Author:Susan Cooper
I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries . . .
Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat, and he falls sick with a mysterious sickness.
When he wakes, Nat finds himself in 1599, an actor at the original Globe - and his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself: William Shakespeare.
Nat's new life is full of excitement, danger and the passionate friendship that he has longed for since the tragic death of his parents. But why has he been sent to the past - and is he trapped there forever?
A masterful novel
—— Publishers Weekly[An] exceptional debut novel.... a beautifully turned piece of writing of extraordinary assurance... As natural as breathing. Both vivid and dreamlike, at once very precise in its images and also enchantingly broad-brush atmospheric, this is a debut more captivating than any I've read in some time
—— Daniel Hahn , Independent on SundayThe debut novel by the New York-born, now London-based, Aridjis comes highly recommended by literary heavyweights Paul Auster and Ali Smith, a choice emphasising both Aridjis's transatlantic appeal and her literary sensibilities
—— Lesley Mcdowell , ScotsmanA hypnotic first novel about a young Mexican gal in Berlin who stumbles into friendship with an eccentric historian and the madness that ensues. This book has the power of dreams and still hasn't left me
—— Junot DiazA stirring and lyrical first novel by a young writer of immense talent
—— Paul AusterA fresh and original voice...the book is a portrait of Berlin, a city famed for its richness and strangeness, hauntingly captured by Aridjis
—— Francesca Segal , The ObserverA most unusual debut... An entirely refreshing portrait of young womanhood, it is unselfconscious, uncompromising, wholly authentic
—— Justine Jordan , The GuardianExquisite
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentThis is a haunting debut with an individual, poetic slant
—— Alastair Mabbot , HeraldIt is Paul Auster, only better... This is a whimsical, confident book sustained by offbeat charm and intelligence
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish TimesAridjis is an insightful observer of post-reunification Berlin... Her lyrical, restrained prose conjures a dream-like atmosphere that borders on magical realism. This haunting debut is a significant and memorable addition to the literature of a troubling city
—— CJ Schuler , IndependentInfluenced by magical realism and the cool prose of modernism, first-time author Chloe Aridjis takes the best from each
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldA dark exploration into the mind of an internet-obsessed would-be killer
—— RedCreepy psychodrama...BB's voice soon takes on the seductive cadences of her Gallic creations. Harris's triumph is to incorporate email-speak into this tale of rural nasties without frightening the horses
—— Independent
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