Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

The award-winning Claire North returns with her most powerful and imaginative novel yet – a spellbinding tale set in a future utopian society that is thrilling, moving and thought-provoking in equal measure.

THE GREAT FORST WAS BURNING. BUT FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD WORLD, NEW LIFE GROWS.

Once, the spirits of the mountain, sea and sky rose against humankind. They punished us for the heresies of the Burning Age – the time when we cared so little for the world that it went up in flames. We learned to fear them, honour them, and in the centuries of peace which followed, the spirits slept.

Ven used to be a holy man, studying texts from the ashes of the past, sorting secrets from heresies. But when he gets caught up in the political scheming of the Brotherhood, he finds himself in the middle of a war, fuelled by old knowledge and forbidden ambition. And as the land burns again, the great spirits stir . . .

Notes from the Burning Age is a captivating and visionary new novel from Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. Set in an age after the world has fallen, this masterfully imaginative story asks whether humankind can change the paths we seem fated to follow.

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