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1799: An ordinary antique shop, a most unusual vase…..
Pandora
What you need to know before your trail
London, 1799. Dora Blake is an aspiring jewellery artist who lives with her uncle in what used to be her parents’ famed shop of antiquities. When a mysterious Greek vase is delivered, Dora is intrigued by her uncle’s suspicious behaviour and enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar. Edward sees the ancient vase as key to unlocking his academic future. Dora sees it as a chance to restore the shop to its former glory, and to escape her nefarious uncle.
But what Edward discovers about the vase has Dora questioning everything she has believed about her life, her family, and the world as she knows it. As Dora uncovers the truth she starts to realise that some mysteries are buried, and some doors are locked, for a reason.
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Ludgate hill
- B: Berkeley Square
- C: Society of Antiquities
- D: Fleet St
- E: Puddle Dock
Travel Guide
Pandora’s BookTrail through London
The author gives a detailed account of the time period and her interest in the novel and the idea behind Pandora’s box.
‘The notion that Pandora’s Box was not, in fact, an actual box as the Dutch philosopher Erasmus claimed was food for thought, and so she set to researching what it might have been instead. She found that it could have been a Greek vase and so went about recreating the story into her favourite time period of Georgian London.
The Society fo Antiquities still exists today and the locations in the novel are real and very vividly described.
Booktrailer Review
Highly recommended!
The BookTrail’s full bookreview of Pandora here
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Pandora
Destination: London Author/guide: Susan Stokes-Chapman Departure Time: 1799
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