num_pages: 448
description: A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved. Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal Englishinstead of Frenchthe postcard is signed only with the letter M but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself and he's determined to find the writer. The search for M though will drive Joe from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battle ships of a lost empire's Royal Navy. In the process Joe will remake history and himself.
language: English
title: The Kingdoms
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing