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    "description": "<p><strong><em>Red, White &amp; Royal Blue</em> meets <em>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell</em> in debut author Freya Marske&rsquo;s <em>A Marvellous Light</em>, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.</strong><br /><br />Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He&rsquo;s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents&rsquo; excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what&rsquo;s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he&rsquo;s always known.<br /><br />Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it&mdash;not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.<br /><br />Robin&rsquo;s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they&rsquo;ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles&mdash;and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.</p>",
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