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The Potter's Hand Main Edition
Author(s): A. N. Wilson (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2012
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848879512
- ISBN-13: 9781848879515
Book Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION.
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah’s nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah’s late, great creation: the Portland Vase. As the family fortune is made, and Josiah’s entrepreneurial brilliance creates an empire that will endure for generations, it is his daughter Sukey, future mother of Charles Darwin, who bears clear-eyed witness.
A novel of epic scope, rich in warmth, intellect and humanity, The Potter’s Hand Main Edition explores the lives and loves of one of Britain’s greatest families, whose travails are both ordinary – births, deaths, marriages, opium addiction, depression – and utterly extraordinary.
Editorial Reviews
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Full of fascinating historical detail… [A. N. Wilson’s] most obvious fictional flourish, which sees a Cherokee transported to the potteries, is as incredible as it is romantic… a rather magnificent achievement. ―
Daily MailThis is a splendid story, vividly told. ―
EconomistA. N. Wilson bases his first novel for five years,
The Potter’s Hand Main Edition, on the Wedgwood Dynasty, and delivers their extraordinary adventures and achievements in business with customary aplomb. ― Bookseller’s ChoiceExcellent historic fiction based around the family of Josiah Wedgwood in the period between the US revolution and the French revolution. An interesting man in a fascinating period makes for a compelling read. ―
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