Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The House of Months and Years. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Author's agent: Brooks Sherman, the Bent Agency. The House of Months and Years - Ebook written by Emma Trevayne. Snailwater, who fixes those his city wounds, and Lorcan, whose villainy is tempered with a sad desperation to be loved, will keep readers invested. Trevayne's well-wrought prose and characters like Dr. Disguising himself as a spiritualist, Lorcan ingratiates himself with Jack's s%C3%A9ance-obsessed mother, but Jack finds the doorway into Londinium on his own, where he befriends a windup girl, her physician-mechanic creator, and a trader in souls before he's forced to join the Lady's court. This "Empire of the Clouds" is ruled by the mercurial Lady who sends Lorcan, her general and once her son, to fetch her a new human boy to love. To be complete and healthy ("pink," as a native observes of Jack) is the exception. To live in smoggy, brassy Londinium is to be damaged%E2%80%94either injured by the mechanics of industry or corroded by pollution%E2%80%94and rebuilt. In her first middle-grade novel, Trevayne (Coda and Chorus) introduces Jack Foster, a discontented boy who finds an otherworldly London populated by creatures mechanical and magical.
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