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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2871.Burning_Bright?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Burning Bright" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1188251198m/2871.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2871.Burning_Bright?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Burning Bright</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1973.Tracy_Chevalier">Tracy Chevalier</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4422110?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring. <br/> <br/>Set against the backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/271035?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>