SEDITION
Book ID/图书代码： 02630513B64871
English Summary/英文概要： Motherless Alathea Sawneyford, her charms grown disturbing as she rebels against her father, has made the city’s streets her own, while Annie Cantabile is constrained, by her own disfigurement and her father, to his pianoforte workshop under the shadow of Tyburn gibbet. One afternoon the dusty workshop receives a visitor. A man, representing an unscrupulous band of City speculators, Alathea’s father among them, require a pianoforte and its charming teacher to find titled husbands for all their daughters: sisters Evelina and Marianne; stolid Harriet and pale, pining Georgiana. It seems an innocent enough plan but these are subversive times and perhaps even a drawing-room piano lesson isn’t exactly what it seems. All of which will suit Alathea perfectly.
Fierce and bawdy, uproarious and exquisite, Sedition takes its plot at a racing gallop: bold, beautiful and captivating, it is a narrative masterpiece.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿勒西亚自幼丧母，随着成长，她与父亲之间的矛盾也越来越大，甚至不惜离家出走。而安妮因为外表的缺陷和强势的父亲，只能呆在琴房中无聊度日。有一天下午，这个破旧的琴房迎来了一位客人。这位客人自称这座城市的投机商代表，而阿勒西亚的父亲也是这个组织的成员之一。这个组织的成员现在想为各自的女儿寻找有地位的夫婿，所以想要一架钢琴和一位有教养的钢琴老师来指导这些女孩子。她们分别是埃弗利纳和玛丽安姐妹，慢性子的哈莉还有瘦弱的乔治亚娜。这件事看上去很平常，但实际上并不是寻找钢琴老师这么简单而已。而现在，阿勒西亚似乎是最合适的人选。
《煽动》是叙事体小说中的杰作，情节紧凑，语言大胆，非常吸引人。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：你会被凯特•格兰特笔下这些女孩深深吸引。这是部不可多得的作品，不仅仅只是浅尝即止，而是深入探析。这本书你得在书橱里好好藏好，免得被朋友发现后“借了不还”。这本书也非常值得收藏，等到你的儿女长到合适的年纪，你就可以拿出这本书给他们看。（《苏格兰星期日报》）
角色非常丰富，也非常有想象力。（《每日邮报》）
有关性政治学的故事。（《星期天时报》）
真实而黑暗。（《泰晤士报》）
性政治学和丰富的历史背景相结合，这本书让人难以抗拒。（《卫报》）
黑暗而狡诈的真相被刻画得丝丝入扣。（《观察者报》）
智慧，诙谐，值得细细品味的作品。（《地铁》）
这部小说的立意很高，却以诙谐幽默的语言来刻画主题，这很不寻常，所以非常令人难忘。《煽动》尖锐而寡淡的叙事语气不禁让人回想起来18世纪的戏剧艺术。（《菲利帕斯托克利乡村生活》）
You will be seduced as surely as Katie Grant’s young ladies in this masterpiece of salacious wit. THIS is one of those precious novels. The kind that bookworms burrow inside to devour with relish from cover to cover. The kind you’ll secrete behind all the other books on your shelves in case friends steal it and somehow "forget" to give it back. The kind from which you’ll read chosen snippets to your offspring when they’re old enough. An induction into the magical unruliness of words. Not a dull or superfluous page (Scotland on Sunday)
Packed with colourful characters . . . this is an original, winningly imagined tale (Daily Mail)
A witty, subversive story of sexual politics (Sunday Times)
Original and dark . . . [Grant] writes with wit, verve and not a little mischief (The Times)
In its fairly irresistible combination of transgressive sex and a richly layered evocation of history, Sedition demands comparison with Sarah Waters’ untouchably brilliant novels . . . a properly subversive and quite unforgettable novel (Guardian)
As dark and deceitful as it is bawdy, the beautiful bastard child of Choderlos de Laclos’s Les liasons dangereuses and Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (Observer)
A sly, witty, deliciously knowing treat . . . [a] fascinating debut (Metro)
This spiritedly fantastic novel, written in highly considered and often often funny prose, is both unusual and memorable, building to a flamboyant crescendo. In its rambunctious spirit, Sedition’s sharp tone and dispassionate handling of emotion recalls the waspish glitter of 18th-century plays (Philippa Stockley Country Life)
About the Author/作者介绍： 英国最后一位因煽动叛乱而被处以绞刑分尸的弗朗西斯•汤耐里是凯瑟琳•格兰特的一位祖先。卡瑟琳与五个姐妹和一个兄弟住在兰开夏郡的荒原边上，卡瑟琳有时会结合家庭故事，至今已经写作了9本青少年小说。她也经常为苏格兰报纸撰稿，她还是格拉斯哥大学的英国皇家文学创作基金研究员。凯瑟琳现居于格拉斯哥。Katharine Grant was born into a family described by Lord Burghley, Treasurer to Elizabeth 1st, as of ’more than usual perversity’ Her five times great uncle, Francis Towneley, was the last person in the UK to be hung drawn and quartered- for sedition.
Katharine grew up on the edge of the Lancashire moors with five sisters and one brother and, sometimes using family stories, has written nine novels for children and young adults. She has written regularly for most newspapers in Scotland and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Sedition is her first novel for adults. She lives in Glasgow.
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