Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

Marcus Sedgwick,Julian Sedgwick

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Walker Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 May 2019
Pages
320
ISBN
9781406357929

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

Marcus Sedgwick,Julian Sedgwick

A lyrical and dreamlike story of two brothers in conflict amidst the devastation of WWII London.   

Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid on London. In a state of wounded delirium, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld…

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