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Paperback Alchemy Book

ISBN: 0007149662

ISBN13: 9780007149667

Alchemy

A compelling mystery blending the witch trials of the past with a contemporary case of academic intrigue from this brilliant, well-loved novelist.

Jade Green is a solicitor with her own practice, Lost Causes, that she runs from her London flat. She struggles to keep her business afloat, and supplements her income by delivering for the local Chinese takeaway.

Her life changes with a single phonecall. Dr Gilbert has been dismissed from...

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17th century glass ceiling

Solicitor, Jade Green, accepts a case from a former lecturer at a small, private university from which he was sacked for going against the religious tenets of the Dean. The Professor feels that there was more to his sacking than meets the eye and that greed and corruption are more likely to be the answer than any invented reasons. He has a 17th century manuscript which purports to be that of a young trainee physician who impersonates a man because of the distrust of women in any other role than that of the traditional wife and mother. Jade's story and that of her 17th century counterpart, runs along parallel lines, with both yong women showing decided leanings towards lesbianism, although the story doesn't go into any great detail about their sex lives. The recipes, or receipts as they are called in earlier times, are fascinating and lead one to wonder whether they killed more than they cured, and the utter helplessness of women in those times was apalling when it only took the word of a man, any man, to condemn them out of hand to a life in jail or worse. I have long given up any romantic ideas about living in earlier times, and am only too grateful to be here in the 21st century.
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