The Countenance Divine

'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby Litt In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns. And in 1666 poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries later. But where does the feeling come from that the world is about to end?

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The Countenance Divine is never less than superbly stimulating. It is a debut of high ambition that marks the arrival of a considerable talent Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hughes
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2017
• EAN: 9781473636514
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-3651-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary