{"product_id":"a-subtler-magic-9798256019402","title":"A Subtler Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEngland, 1940. Every night, the bombs fall.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn London, Vivian drives her ambulance through the burning streets, tending to the wounded and dying with a steadiness her colleagues mistake for courage. It is not courage. It is duty - the only language she has ever been taught to speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Oxford, Dame Beryl stands alone in the cupola of the Radcliffe Camera and holds the magical defenses of the British Isles together by sheer force of will. Her body is failing. Her grief is vast. She has given everything to the protection of her country and her people, and she will give whatever remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two women have circled each other for years - mentor and heir, guardian and charge, each convinced that love and duty cannot coexist. But when a long-buried secret surfaces from the night that made Vivian an orphan, everything either woman believes about herself, about the other, and about the nature of magic begins to fracture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the thunder of the Blitz and the ancient landscape of Arthurian Britain, \u003cem\u003eA Subtler Magic\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about the cost of devotion, the courage it takes to remember, and the quiet, irresistible power of the one spell neither woman ever learned to cast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers of The Essex Serpent and \u003c\/em\u003eSusanna Clarke\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fabulous story that blends Arthurian myth with the Blitz and wartime Oxford. Make yourself a hot cocoa and prepare to fall under the spell of Vivian and friends as you dodge the bombs and fight the magical onslaught of the enemy.\" - Julia Golding, author of The Persephone Code and Director of the Oxford Centre for Fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grapes \u0026amp; Wrath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256019402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Michael D. McCartney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774317818037,"sku":"9798256019402","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-subtler-magic-9798256019402","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}