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    series · 3 books · 2021

    Set in 19th century.

    “The first book in the Last Binding trilogy, A MARVELLOUS LIGHT is a queer historical fantasy set in an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts and conspiracies.”

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    Time travel, about coming of age, set in renaissance and early modern.

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