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Arcadia Author: Iain Pears

ISBN: 9780571301584 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 608 Published: 26 August 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 4.4 Description: An inventive, captivating and richly imagined new novel from bestselling writer Iain Pears. The novel will also be published as an interactive app.

Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing journey.Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel.Meanwhile - in the real world - one of Lytten's former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment.As he and his characters struggle with questions of free will, love, duty and the power of the imagination, Lytten discovers he is not sure how he wants his stories to end, nor even who is imaginary...

About the Author

Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art...

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