Hopeland - Ian McDonald
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
They met while London burned. A encounter during a riot brought Amon Brightbourne together with Raissa Hopeland on a mad rooftop hunt for a family heirloom: a Tesla Coil. But there is no such thing as chance where Amon is concerned: hes been exiled from his family home because hes both cursed and blessed with the Grace he lives a charmed life, but at the expense of those closest to him. The Grace made him fall in love with Raissa, and with her family, the extraordinary Hopelands a family like stars in the sky, scattered but connected in constellations of affection, parenthood, love and responsibility., But a terrible misunderstanding tears them apart, and sends Amon on a journey through the ever-extending Hopeland family, touching lives and shaping the course of the unfolding 20th century. Raissas life is also changed by that moment, from free spirit to major player in the unfolding story of the 21st century in an Iceland transformed by the Artic thaw., Over twenty years their lives
