Dimensions
130 x 197 x 8mm
An historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relations are, however far from accurate . . .