A reissue of Derek Beaven's first novel -- originally published by
Faber -- a lavish and richly detailed portrait of the world of
Newton and the London of that time. From the disturbing goings-on
in a South London mental hospital, the narrator of this daring and
ambitious novel hurtles back through the past, to the character of
Kit, Isaac Newton's niece. What unfolds is a story of conflicting
male and female universes at the beginning of the eighteenth
century, a time when Newton and others were claiming the meaning of
the world for themselves and trying to fix it in their grid, an
emotional asphyxiation Kit determines to fight against. Full of
music and science and politics, Newton's Niece is a book about
disorientation, human life as self-experiment and the nature of
Time, a novel that boldly explores sexual politics and the early
feminist struggle. 'Magnificent set pieces, a richness of thought,
a prodigal and original talent.' Time Out
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