SuitabookControl and freedom
Jack enters Londinium and may never escape; the Lady has chosen him as her son, while the Gearwing represents a possible route out.
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Emma Trevayne - Author
A dark, imaginative adventure about a child trapped in an uncanny mechanical London, combining peril, strange inventions and a possible escape quest involving a legendary clockwork bird.
In nineteenth-century England, a boy is about to discover a mysterious mechanical world he may never escape. Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London. Londinium is a smoky, dark, and dangerous place, home to mischievous metal fairies and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding steam. The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets in their nostrils to filter air, or mechanical limbs to replace missing ones. Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son -- a perfect flesh-and-blood child. She has chosen Jack. His only hope of escape lies with a legendary clockwork bird. The Gearwing grants wishes -- or it did, before it was broken -- before it was killed. But some things don't stay dead forever. Fans of books like Splendors and Glooms and Goblin Secrets will find Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times irresistible! - Publisher.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA dark, imaginative adventure about a child trapped in an uncanny mechanical London, combining peril, strange inventions and a possible escape quest involving a legendary clockwork bird.
Jack enters Londinium and may never escape; the Lady has chosen him as her son, while the Gearwing represents a possible route out.
Londinium includes people using goggles, air-filtering nose insets and mechanical limbs, while the Lady seeks a ‘perfect flesh-and-blood child’.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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