Electricity: A Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the gaslit drawing rooms and rain-soaked countryside of Victorian England, Charlotte Mortimer navigates a world crackling with the invisible forces of desire, ambition, and a society on the cusp of transformation — Electricity is Victoria Glendinning's intoxicating debut novel, chronicling one woman's search for selfhood against the backdrop of a nation being rewired by modernity. Charlotte, married to a pioneer in the nascent electrical industry, finds herself caught between duty and longing, as the revolutionary technology her husband champions becomes a powerful metaphor for the raw, ungovernable currents running beneath the surface of her own life. Glendinning, celebrated for her masterful literary biographies of figures such as Vita Sackville-West and Anthony Trollope, brings that same razor-sharp insight into the human condition to her fiction, crafting a narrative that is at once intimate and sweeping in its historical scope. Her prose is luminous and precise, illuminating the quiet rebellions and suppressed passions of a woman who refuses to be merely a decorative fixture in her husband's grand design. Rich with period detail and psychological acuity, Electricity poses a question that still hums with relevance: what happens when a woman discovers that the most dangerous current of all runs through her own heart?
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Format: Paperback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the gaslit drawing rooms and rain-soaked countryside of Victorian England, Charlotte Mortimer navigates a world crackling with the invisible forces of desire, ambition, and a society on the cusp of transformation — Electricity is Victoria Glendinning's intoxicating debut novel, chronicling one woman's search for selfhood against the backdrop of a nation being rewired by modernity. Charlotte, married to a pioneer in the nascent electrical industry, finds herself caught between duty and longing, as the revolutionary technology her husband champions becomes a powerful metaphor for the raw, ungovernable currents running beneath the surface of her own life. Glendinning, celebrated for her masterful literary biographies of figures such as Vita Sackville-West and Anthony Trollope, brings that same razor-sharp insight into the human condition to her fiction, crafting a narrative that is at once intimate and sweeping in its historical scope. Her prose is luminous and precise, illuminating the quiet rebellions and suppressed passions of a woman who refuses to be merely a decorative fixture in her husband's grand design. Rich with period detail and psychological acuity, Electricity poses a question that still hums with relevance: what happens when a woman discovers that the most dangerous current of all runs through her own heart?