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#Queerlit Book Club

Sun, Sep 10

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Leesburg

Join us for a discussion of our next book, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske.

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#Queerlit Book Club
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Sep 10, 2023, 3:00 PM EDT – Sep 11, 2023, 4:30 PM EDT

Leesburg, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

About the event

Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.

Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known.

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--not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.

Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to…

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