Alchemy of Glass

 

Alchemy of Glass

Barbara Barnett

376 pp • ISBN 9781645060130
Paperback • $19.95
April 2020

In the catacombs of an ancient ruined monastery, hidden away in the Eildon Hills of Scotland, a land of myth and mystery--the place where immortal apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune found sanctuary as a lad-- Gaelan discovers a journal, apparently written by his old friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chronicling an adventure into the Otherworld, a land of fairy castles and filigree trees hung with Spanish moss.

Falling from the journal’s pages is a small piece of glass, which Gaelan recognizes as a fragment long missing from a stained glass panel he’d created a century earlier. When the opalescent glass seems to come alive in his hand, Gaelan is suddenly thrust into strange world far from the fantastical dreamscape Conan Doyle describes.

Alchemy of Glass weaves a tale magical as spun glass and terrifying as a shattered mirror, drawing upon cutting edge science and the most ancient of Celtic mythology, intertwining the magic of fairy lore and the harsh reality of difficult choices, returning us to the world of Gaelan Erceldoune as his past, present and future collide.


Reviews

PRAISE FOR ALCHEMY OF GLASS:
“Anne Rice meets Michael Crichton in this fever dream of a fantasy. Richly textured, terrifying, and somehow timely, Barbara Barnett’s time-jumping tale will keep readers up well past their bedtime. Highly recommended!”
— Jay Bonansinga, New York Times–bestselling author of The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy and Self Storage

“Myth, medicine, and immortality, braided together like the border of an illuminated manuscript.” — Doris Egan, screenwriter, novelist, and writer and co-executive producer of House,M.D.


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