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From the award-winning author of The Bellwether Revivals comes a "gorgeous and harrowing work" (Emily St. John Mandel) arranged on a strange island where designers strive to retrieve their lost presents - and where nothing is quite as it appears. Situated on the Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive designers' colony around. Its amazing residents linger for years, all expenses paid and living under assumed labels. Relieved of the burdens of your energy and ego, they may be absolve to create their next masterpieces. Elspeth Conroy (aka "Knell") is a Scottish painter who have been at Portmantle for ten years, a refugee from the frantic London art landscape. Her fellow longtimers include Quickman, whose singular book became a classic and paralyzed his muse; MacKinney, a playwright who left behind her family; and Pettifer, an architect obsessing over an unfinished cathedral. In his astonishing second book, Benjamin Wood provides us "an intensely personal portrait of the artist as a young female, with truths on every page" (Independent). The hermetic world at Portmantle shatters when the 17-year-old Fullerton arrives at the gates, his provenance and talents unfamiliar. As Knell searches for answers, she unveils the path that led her to this place: her personal connection with her gruff drunk of any mentor; her early successes and crushing failures; a quest across the Atlantic and in to the psychiatrist's office; and a grand commission of astronomical value. What's "The Ecliptic", and exactly how does it relate to the life span Elspeth left behind? This beautiful puzzle of any novel touches the top and the heart, and the effect is nothing in short supply of electrifying.
