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Buy the chymical wedding by lindsay clarke from waterstones today. He has an extensive knowledge of mythology and legend and runs workshops in the uk and abroad. Lindsay clarkes novel excited me more than any other english fiction for some time. Ivy books, published by ballantine books title page verso. In a dazzling weave of story and character, the chymical wedding tells two parallel and interconnected talesone set in the late 1840s, one in the 1980s, both played out in the same english village. In the chymical wedding, the second novel of british writer lindsay clarke and the winner of the whitbread award for best novel of the year, alchemy is presented as a spiritual process. Click to read more about the chymical wedding by lindsay clarke. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. He currently lives in somerset with his wife, phoebe clare. Novel category 1989 winner of whitbread prize novel 1989. The chymical wedding is a novel in which human passion and intellectual obsession reverberate through two interwoven narratives, a compelling work of imagination which establishes lindsay clarke as one of the most provocative and gifted authors writing in britain today. If you have read it id love to know what you think about it. They are obsessively researching the lives of sir henry agnew and his daughter louisa, who lived in munding in the nineteenth century and were deeply engaged in alchemical.
Lindsay clarke books list of books by author lindsay clarke. It may contain obessions, dark sides, selfcentred fathers and tormented ministers but the mood of the novel is completely at odds with this description. The chymical wedding by lindsay clarke 1997, paperback. Soon after moving to the secluded norfolk village of munding, alex darken has a disturbing encounter with the ageing poet edward nesbit and his young lover laura. The chymical wedding is a 1989 novel by lindsay clarke about the intertwined lives of six people in two different eras. Clarke s most lindsay clarke is a british novelist. The chymical wedding by clarke, lindsay and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Whitbreadwinner clarke the chymical wedding, 1989, etc. He has been writer in residence at the university of wales, cardiff, where he became a longterm. His works include the chymical wedding, alices masque and. He was educated at heath grammar school in halifax and at kings college cambridge. His novel, sunday whiteman, based on the time he spent as a teacher in the rainforest of west africa, was shortlisted for the david higham first novel award.
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