The Whisper of Stars
Katya Efremova, a 19-year-old anarchist, has spent ten months imprisoned in a covert government laboratory. When an escape attempt goes terribly wrong, she’s transferred to a new prison colony on Solovetsky Island in the White Sea. There she finds a clue from her murdered mother: Listen to the whisper of stars. Aristocrat Dima Danilov knows he’ll never leave Solovetsky Island alive. His dreams of Katya before they ever met are baffling to him – an anarchist and an aristocrat could never be together. But when he finds a 250-year-old diary written by his ancestor – a first-person account of Stenka Razin’s rebellion, which Katya’s mother was investigating before her death – the two of them reluctantly agree to work together. Natasha Bobrinskaya is a rogue witch. When she’s offered her freedom in exchange for spying on Katya and Dima, she jumps at the chance.
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A frozen island.
A monastery turned political prison.
A cipher inked in blood.
When anarchist poet Katya Efremova is transferred to the prison colony on Solovetsky Island, she finds an enigma among her returned possessions - a blood-stained book containing a cipher left by her murdered mother, written on the day she died.
Following her mother's clues, Katya begins to unravel a centuries-old mystery woven into the history of Solovetsky Island. Finding the island's legendary power might be the key to overthrowing the Bolshevik regime, but Katya wasn't sent to Solovetsky by chance. The head of the government's spy network is watching, and there will be no hope of a free Russia if he takes hold of the magic hidden beneath the White Sea snow.
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| Dimensions | 240 × 156 mm |
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| Author | |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Imprint | Gollancz |
| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Hardback original |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |