by Gwyneth Jones (Author)
The Cat - intelligent, elegant and heartless - and her loving companion Cho together go in search of the race who had left them alone. Cho believes she would be able to put an end to the world's problems. Divine Endurance had promised her that. And it is true: Cho has the power to grant every wish of the human heart. In the Peninsula, Cho and Divine Endurance discover a land of intricate beauty, but it is also a land riddled with corruption, where a desperate struggle is in progress between the people and the indifferent power of their Rulers. Everywhere death creeps in like the tide. And sometimes every wish of the human heart doesn't always work out ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 10 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0575070129
ISBN 13: 9780575070127
Book Overview: Gwyneth Jones is one of Britain's most critically acclaimed writers of imaginative fiction. MIDNIGHT LAMP is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and British SF Awards BOLD AS LOVE won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Britain's most prestigious SF Award CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award One of Britain's most brilliant SF writers Francis Spufford, GUARDIAN Gwyneth is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award