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    The Battle of the Sun

    By Jeanette Winterson

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    Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city.

    But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.

    Jeanette Winterson's first novel for children, Tanglewreck, was widely admired. Here in her second, readers will once more relish her free-spirited literary inventiveness and style.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 7, 2009
    ISBN9781408808917
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    The Battle of the Sun
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    Jeanette Winterson

    Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester in 1959. She read English at Oxford University before writing her first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, which was published in 1985.

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    • 4/5
      I really liked this one! I did not realize it’s by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit until well after I read it. I think that would have changed my expectations somewhat going in. It’s slightly weird, but also lovely. And historical fantasy, which is always okay with me.
    • 4/5
      It is London in 1601, but things are not as they might seem. The life of the young protagonist, Jack, is about to take a turn away from the future planned out for him, and he goes from being a pawn in a game played by others to one where his resourcefulness and bravery lead to his his transformation into a person of some power. 'The Battle of the Sun' comes over as dreamlike, with figures from alchemical treatises, supernatural happenings and irrational actions all assuming an aura of reality and plausibility as often happens in dreams. Jeanette Winterson's declared mode of writing here is to let the action emerge from the situations she conjures up, and much of the first part of the book introduces characters and places and scenarios that seemingly lack resolution until a character from another of her children's novels intrudes herself, at which point the plot gathers momentum and a sense of direction before reaching a satisfying conclusion.Winterson is a poet, and much of the writing is poetic, from the doggerel and rhyming couplets of the Creature to the evocative descriptions of the sights and smells of 17th century London, from the turns of phrase employed in the narrative to the alchemical imagery which lingers in the mind. The poetry is what helps to save this novel from being merely a prosaic description of fantastical happenings manipulating the dramatis personae and it is poetry which gives the story its own personality. This novel apparently didn't set out to be a sequel-cum-prequel to 'Tanglewreck' but that is what it became. And the end of 'The Battle of the Sun' hints that, even if the girl Silver feels it is almost just a dream, there are loose threads to tie up and that the dream has not ended. I look forward to hearing more of Silver and Jack.