by Robin Jarvis · Hodder Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340788653
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«The Alchymist's Cat» is Robin Jarvis's young adult fantasy novel, published by Hodder Children's Books in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In the winter of 1664, Will Godwin, a young alchemist's apprentice, finds a cat with her three kittens in a London cemetery and takes them to the apothecary of his master, Doctor Spittle. The arrival of the animals in the laboratory triggers a plot of sorcery, betrayals and crimes in which the origin of a threat is glimpsed.
First instalment of The Deptford Histories, a prequel to the Deptford Mice trilogy.
Recommended for young readers aged 10 and up, especially those who enjoy dark fantasy and animal stories.
Robin Jarvis is a British young adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for young adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear. (The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. (Deathscent).
