Alkemistens dotter

The last child of an alchemist dynasty, Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna comes into the world in the late 1700s at Hermestorp, an estate where the furnace smokes day and night and darkens the sky. When her father dies without warning, she inherits a staggering secret: she is the one destined to finish a great work that will alter the world for ever. Hunting for what her family has hidden, she sets out across Europe, by way of Marstrand and the squalid docks and bordellos of Paris, towards Berlin, hounded from the start by hidden enemies. In Paris she encounters Andreas, a relative who broke with the family, and must decide whether he is friend or foe. Doubt is a luxury she cannot afford.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

379 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, France, Germany, late 1700s

First published

2014 by Natur & Kultur

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789127139954 (original)