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The Kingdoms

by Natasha Pulley
Theo Solomon
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For fans of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and David Mitchell, a genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved. Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal English—instead of French—the postcard is signed only with the letter "M," but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he's determined to find the writer. The search for M, though, will drive Joe from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battle ships of a lost empire's Royal Navy. Swept out to sea with a hardened British sea captain named Kite, who might know more about Joe's past than he's willing to let on, Joe will remake history, and himself. From bestselling author Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms is an epic, romantic, wildly original novel that bends genre as easily as it twists time.

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  • Release date

    May 25, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781635578263
      • File size: 432931 KB
      • Duration: 15:01:56

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 4, 2021
      Pulley’s latest genre-bending feat (after The Lost Future of Pepperharrow) masterfully combines history, speculative fiction, queer romance, and more into an unputdownable whole. In 1898, Joe Tournier finds himself in Londres­­—a city in the French Republic, which colonized England in the Napoleonic Wars—without any memory of his life before that moment. All he has are hazy images that come to him in dreams and an unshakable sense that something is wrong. And he’s not the only one: others in the city are feeling the same strange amnesia. When a postcard arrives for Joe bearing clues to his identity—mailed in 1805 but somehow depicting a recently built Scottish lighthouse—Joe resolves to find a way to reach that lighthouse and search for answers—but the mystery only grows more complicated from there, leading Joe down a rabbit hole that sends him from Scotland to Spain on a time-bending journey that spans more than a century. Pulley doesn’t shy away from the story’s sharp edges, exploring the devastating effects changes in the past can have on the future and shining a light on the ambiguous moral choices made by characters under duress. These dark, challenging moments are bolstered by the action-packed and intricate plot and leavened by the rich emotional entanglements of the makeshift family that Joe stumbles into along the way. This is a stunner. Agent: Jenny Savill, Andrew Nurnberg Assoc.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Theo Solomon narrates this work of speculative time-travel fiction. The story is set in real places in the United Kingdom; sometimes the timelines are close to actual historical events, and sometimes they're not. Nevertheless, Solomon's smooth and steady delivery keeps the genre-bending elements rooted so firmly in reality that listeners will start second-guessing what is real and what is fiction. As the stories move in and out of real time and from the north to the south of the UK, his accents and characterizations always make clear whether the story is taking place in London or Scotland. The pacing is relentless, so listeners should be prepared to binge on this audiobook. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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