THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER
Book ID/图书代码： 08145006B02286
English Summary/英文概要： A classic, page-turning story of secrets and science, passion and betrayal, innocence and experience - in the tradition of Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory Dark secrets haunt the manor house at Selden in Buckinghamshire, where Emilie Selden, motherless, fiercely intelligent and more beautiful than she realises, has been raised in near isolation by her father.
John Selden, student of Isaac Newton, is conducting a bold and secret experiment. He aims to turn Emilie into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in his ancient manor house, with only their two servants for company, he fills her with knowledge and records every step she takes.
In the spring of 1725, when Emilie is eighteen, father and daughter begin their most daring alchemical adventure of all - an attempt to breathe life into dead matter. But their work is interrupted by the arrival of two strangers, one a researcher into the life of plants, the other a dazzling young merchant. During the course of a sultry August, whilst her father is away, 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： )在英國白金漢郡一股神秘力量縈繞著Selden莊園。智慧和美麗並具的Emilie Selden由父親獨自撫養長大，她的父親兼師長John Selden是牛頓Isaac Newton的得意門生，他的目標是使Emilie成為煉金術士。
他們隱居與外世隔絕直到1725年的春天，Emilie和他的父親方始離開他們愁雲慘淡的住所，而生活卻也被兩位來訪的陌生人打擾。單純天真不解世故的Emilie卻愛上了其中一位年輕商人，她的父親會用什麼手段阻擾情竇初開的Emilie，兩人的戀情是否能開花結果?(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售：英、美、德 ’This is an intelligent portrait of England in the early 18th century, as experienced by a remarkable young woman.---Kate Saunders, THE TIMES
’Rich in period detail, this historical novel has all the right trappings.’ ---NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
’McMahon has given us a first rate historical romance: it’s hard to think it will be bettered this year.’ ---Lesley McDowell, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
’The Emilie we relate to is passionate and modern. The Emilie we admire is rational and less modern. It works beautifully, giving us a more complex Emilie while keeping a sense of the miraculousness of the times, an era when men - and women - challenged God.’---DUBLIN EVENING, HERALD
’What makes The Alchemist’s Daughter more than a routine entertainment is McMahon’s vivid sense of both the natural world and of the smells and illuminated darkness of Selden’s workroom. We believe in Emilie and come to love her for all her follies, because she is so passionate in her experience of the world around her.’ ---Roz Kaveney, THE INDEPENDENT
’McMahon writes seriously and well, and conveys the disjunction between knowing something scientifically and knowing it emotionally. This is familiar material, but McMahon handles it with intelligence.’---THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
’McMahon write a clear, sensual prose, filled with wit...Emilie may be a classic fairy-tale heroine on the surface, but this Sleeping Beauty has depth and an incresingly self-aware intelligence.’ ---WASHINGTON POST
About the Author/作者介绍： Katharine McMahon is the author of four novels. She has taught in secondary schools, performed in local theatre and worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow teaching writing skills at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Warwick. She lives in Hertfordshire.
Katharine McMahon生於倫敦，為皇家文藝基金會Royal Literary Fund在英國赫福郡Hertfordshire和瓦立克郡Warwick兩所大學教授寫作技巧。
Katharine McMahon被定位為歷史小說家。她喜歡以個性獨立的女性為主角，讓角色按個性發展，而不刻意安排故事結構，結局往往令讀者出乎意料。《秘戀》獲選英國最具影響力的「理察與茱蒂」讀書俱樂部（The Richard & Judy Book Club）推薦選書。
作者作品曾發行如西班牙文、捷克語、荷蘭文、德文、希臘文、希伯來文等多種語言版本:
BB Art (Czech), Sijthoff (Dutch), Droemer (German), Oceanida (Greek), Opus (Hebrew), Svajoniu (Lithuanian), Insignis (Polish), Casadas Letras (Portugal), Cappelen Damm (Norwegian), Polirom (Romanian), Sezam (Serbian), Salamandra (Spanish).
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