The Gate of Angels
Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
ISBN: 9780006543602
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 176
Dimensions: 130mm x 196mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.
Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.
Until into Fred’s orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she’s quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.
ISBN: 9780006543602
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 176
Dimensions: 130mm x 196mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.
Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.
Until into Fred’s orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she’s quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.
