Author:Johanna Lindsey
Electric dialogue, enticing characters, and a fantastic setting, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, for fans of Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly.
'First-rate romance' - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
'A dreamspinner extraordinaire' - ROMANTIC TIMES
'This book was just so good, I couldn't put it down.' -- ***** Reader review
'LOVE LOVE LOVE her work!!' -- ***** Reader review
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THE HEART WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO GET WHAT IT WANTS
It was to be a great adventure for Melissa MacGregor - an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the world of the London Season.
There she hopes to find a suitable husband who will not be intimidated by her sixteen uncles, six of whom are called Ian. But before she begins her pursuit of a new life, she encounters an intriguing stranger on her grandfather's lands.
Lincoln Ross Burnett, the seventeenth Viscount Cambury, once called Scotland his home, until he was sent away to London after his father's death, the subject of a bitter family feud. Now, as he roams the countryside of his youth, he still feels the bitterness of his exile - until he meets Melissa, and is struck by her beauty and liveliness.
He pursues her to London, where even their shared passion may not be powerful enough to overcome the devastating hatred of those who have sworn his destruction...
'First-rate romance'
—— New York Daily News'A dreamspinner extraordinaire'
—— Romantic TimesHøeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow
—— GuardianIt is a work of maddening brilliance and gripping originality, deceptively casual in style, but vibrating with wit, intellect and ambition
—— Richard Lloyd Parry , The TimesWhich other author can remind you simultaneously of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and JK Rowling, not merely within the same chapter but on the same page? Viewed through the "post-modern" lens, his exemplary blend of a light touch and weighty themes, of high literature and popular entertainment, ticks every box. Posh and pop, sublimity and superficiality, history and fantasy, trash and transcendence: they switch positions and then fuse
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentEerie, suspenseful and packed full of gorgeous ordinary details and provocative extraordinary events, Murakami takes weighty themes and delivers a compulsive tale that is funny, fresh and intensely surreal. Unmissable
—— Marie ClaireA postmodernist mélange of fantasy worlds, dystopias, alternate realities and genre pastiches, all overlaid on an unsuspecting contemporary Japan. They are the sort of fiction that usually attracts a cult following, but Mr Murakami's cult spreads across the globe
—— Wall Street JournalA surreal twist on the formula of David Nicholl's One Day; fate preventing two soulmates from getting together from getting together for decades... Stieg Larsson enthusiasts may enjoy the novel too as Aomame could be Lisbeth Salander's Japanese cousin... What makes Murakami cool as well as popular is has metaphysical mischievousness, his playing around with the idea of alternate realities... Every time you open 1Q84, you get the sensation of falling down the rabbit hole, into a unique and addictive world
—— Sunday ExpressThe novel of the year... such are Murakami's gifts, both in terms of his imagination and his skills as a writer, that the near-magical world he conjures seems real and tangible
—— WordHis default setting as a writer lies in documenting a muted alienation - Kafka with an iPod - and solace, in his books, tends to be found in the sudden human connection of sex and longing, but mostly his characters, like his readers, are left to figure things out on their own with shifting and partial information to go on
—— Observer1Q84 is an extraordinary feat of sustained imagination
—— Evening Standard[One of] .. the best books to really get your teeth into this winter... Part thriller, part love story, the first print run sold out in one day in the author's native Japan
—— GraziaA whole host of Murakami icons from talking cats to one-way portals all contribute to this rich and often perplexing mix. But ultimately, 1Q84 is a simple love story that ends on a metaphysical cliff-hanger... a delicious paranormal stew
—— Independent on SundayIt is natural that his work should enchant younger readers, to whom the problems of being are still fresh, as well as others who never grew out of such puzzlements - that his books should send an outstretched hand of sympathy to anyone who feels that they too have been tossed, without their permission, into a labyrinth
—— GuardianAn extraordinary love story. Murakami is renowned for his exceptional imagination and this book does not disappoint; he weaves a myriad of worlds, beliefs and themes together in a moving combination. Compelling and bewildering, there's nonetheless something profoundly human and stark in simplicity at the heart of this love story: the power of true love.
—— AestheticaFans, however, will recognise many elements in this fantastical tale, which at its twisted heart is another boy-meets-girl love story but which encompasses the ominous power of cults, a teasing preoccupation with quotidian mundanity, a sackload of music and literature references and a healthy dose of the downright bizarre.
—— Siobhan Murphy , MetroMasterful… Nine hundred and twenty-five pages of riveting, intriguing, irresistible journeying through the characters’…interior worlds
—— David Carless , PsychologistWeird and wonderful characters…the prose is beautiful, moving and the story is fascinating. Highly recommended
—— Helena Lang , Sainsbury's Magazine