Substance Abuse: Light wine-drinking at parties.Īnything Else: Uncle Tully is put in constant danger, has no comprehension of what’s happening to him, and is treated as a freak by those who wish to use his genius for evil. Language: One or two uses of “bloody” and “damn.” A young woman is pregnant, and Katharine, in a dark moment, thinks Lane might have had something to do with that. While sneaking around the palace corridors, Katharine bumps into a disheveled Emperor and hears a woman giggling nearby. Sex: Lane and Katharine exchange a few chaste kisses. A special-needs man is frequently menaced by those who see him only as a tool. A man is found murdered, but we do not witness the event and are never even told how he was killed. A girl finds a man creeping about in her yard after dark and clobbers him with a brick. Violence: A house is violently raided a servant deals a fatal blow to an invader’s head in self-defense. Here they will stumble on family secrets and royal intrigues, and run afoul of two governments. Babcock and maidservant Mary Brown-with no choice but to smuggle him to his mother’s old safe house in Paris. Aunt Alice finally sends men from the nearest insane asylum to capture Uncle Tully, which leaves Katharine and her allies-family solicitor Mr. Katharine has heard nothing from her beau and realizes that he might be dead.īut she is granted the opportunity to search for him, among many other tasks. Lane sailed for France almost two years ago. Katharine blew the ship up while trying to simply shoot Aldridge, and while it was unlikely anyone had survived the blast, Lane Moreau was not convinced. Once he had the designs for the fish, Aldridge set off for France, attempting to kill Katharine when she discovered his plot, and throwing the child Davy off his ship to drown. It could decide the struggle between Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoléon III for control of the seas. He saw this thing as only a delightful toy, but others-most importantly the Anglo-French spy known in Stranwyne as Ben Aldridge-realized its potential as a weapon. In the last book, Uncle Tully had built a wondrous mechanical fish that could swim, propelling itself. He has the all-mastering, simple emotions of a small child, yet a mathematical and mechanical genius that goes far beyond anyone alive in his day. Uncle Tully isn’t a bit mad, but Victorian language lacks a word to describe him. Katharine Tulman has been managing her ancestral estate, Stranwyne Keep, avoiding the malicious London-based circle of her spiteful Aunt Alice, and taking care of her “mad” Uncle Frederick, called Tully. It’s been two years since The Dark Unwinding left off.
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