num_pages: 390
description: Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with another brilliantly rendered historical tale set in the waning days of eighteenth-century London. Poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street–savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake’s, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.
language: English
title: Burning Bright
titlecomplete: Burning Bright
characters: Maggie Butterfield, William Blake, Jem Kellaway
genres: Fiction, Historical, Coming Of Age, British Literature, 18th Century, Novels, Adult Fiction, Art, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 14414
places: London, England
publisher: Harper