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Drawing on alchemy, neurology, animal-rights activism, and supernatural visitations, this début novel is an ambitious, learned thriller. A Cambridge historian dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind the nearly completed manuscript of a book on the alchemical experiments of Isaac Newton. Her son, a research scientist, hires his former lover, Lydia, to finish the book. Meanwhile, a shadowy group of animal-rights activists escalate their violent attacks. As Lydia is drawn further into Newton’s seventeenth-century world, she begins to believe that his ghost is haunting her and, perhaps, directing the murderous events of the present.

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I loved Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, and I couldn't wait to pick up another book that might take a deeper look into Isaac Newton's alchemical experiments. The research that was done before this book was wri...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 08:06:19 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:11:31 -0800 2008 New Yorker review sounded promising, too:

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Still, it was a good book. Walks the supernatural side of things, hints at ghosts, but never really gets too spooky. I was struck b...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:01:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:01:28 -0800 2009 Most of us know Sir Isaac Newton as the author of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), the father of classical mechanics, and a forerunner to the Enlightenment. Less known was his interest in magical alchemy and the occult, nearly inseparable from his scientific studies. British ...

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Set in Cambridge, the mother and author, is found drowned in a river near...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 08 19:28:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:28:53 -0800 2009 a NYT book reviewer gets it totally wrong, but that's the case with Rebecca Stott's novel, Ghostwalk. I should have been tipped off by the trite final sentence of the review: "[Stott's:] home terrain, however, is the river-riven landscape of the human heart." Wh...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 13:59:52 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 11:38:42 -0700 2008 However, I soon got fed up and gave up after a...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 16:13:57 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 16:30:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 11:16:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 11:16:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 07:17:42 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 06:30:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 03:47:50 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 06:04:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 31 16:35:46 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 16:42:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=668608