GHOSTWALK
Book ID/图书代码： 04579006B04680
English Summary/英文概要： A haunting, beautifully-written story of murder and science, alchemy and history, love and betrayal, in the spirit of A S Byatt’s ’Possession’.
Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect. The son of a reclusive historian finds his mother’s drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through her garden. She is clutching a glass prism. Elizabeth Vogelsang’s magnum opus, a book on Isaac Newton’s alchemy, is incomplete. Lydia Brooke, a writer friend of the dead historian, returns to Cambridge to the funeral. It is five years since she has seen Elizabeth’s son, Cameron Brown, with whom she has had an intermittent love affair that began some fifteen years earlier. Cambridge, she discovers, is in the midst of an upsurge of attacks by animal rights extremists, an unidentified group called NABED. Cameron, who, as a neuroscientist uses animal experimentation, has been targeted. Cameron asks Lydia to act as a paid ghostwriter in the completion of his mother’s book, Alchemist. Lydia agrees to the proposal and moves into Elizabeth’s strange house, a triangular shaped studio on the banks of the Cam. Soon Lydia finds herself entangled, not only with Cameron, but also with a four-hundred year-old murder mystery, a network of 17th century alchemists and a ghostly figure intent on disrupting her work.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个让人难以忘怀的关于凶手、科学、炼金术、历史、爱情、背叛的美丽故事，一切罪恶都源于人类的占有欲。
故事的背景是现在的剑桥，但和17世纪又有着剪不断理还乱的联系，乍一看它是一个鬼故事，一个发生在17世纪剑桥的美丽爱情故事，再看看您会发现这是一个400年前的凶杀案之谜，故事中伟大的牛顿成了嫌疑犯。隐居的历史学家之子偶然在他家花园前的Cam河支流中发现她母亲溺水身亡的尸体。他母亲手里攥着一个玻璃棱镜。
Elizabeth Vogelsang的一部关于牛顿炼金术的杰作残缺不全。Lydia Brooke回剑桥出席她这位历史学家朋友的葬礼，葬礼上她和Elizabeth的儿子Cameron Brown 再次相遇，这对昔日的旧情人上次见面还是在5年以前。来到剑桥之后，Lydia发现这里正处在一个叫NABED的组织倡导的保护动物运动的高潮。而神经学科学家Cameron经常使用动物来完成他的实验，因此成了动物运动的攻击对象。Cameron希望Lydia能够替她母亲完成炼金术的著作，Lydia接受了他的请求并搬到了Elizabeth位于Cam河岸边奇异的三角形工作室里。很快，Lydia发现自己卷入了与Cameron的感情之中，她还发现了四百多年前一宗神秘
*已賣8國語言.其中包含俄語與中文簡體
Awards/获奖情况：英國出版三周就賣9千本，目前英國已經印了77,000本。
About the Author/作者介绍： Rebecca Stott是一位作家兼广播员。她的作品既有小说类也有非小说类的，她在英国文学系教书，隶属于剑桥科学史系。他的作品无论是广播稿、小说书还是非小说类作品都很好地将历史、文学、科学史融合在一起。她曾创作过非小说类作品Darwin and the Barnacle
Rebecca Stott is a writer and broadcaster. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, teaches in an English literature department and is affiliated to the Cambridge history of science department. Her work, in radio writing, fiction and non-fiction, weaves together history, literature and the history of science. She is the author the non-fiction book ’Darwin and the Barnacle’.
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