The ingenious Edgar Jones
By: Elizabeth Garner
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781407413464
Subjects: Fiction; College teachers; Exceptional children; History
Description: In the nineteenth-centuary Oxford, an extraordinary child is born - Edgar Jones, a porter's son with a magical talent. Though his father cannot see his academic slownerr, his abilities as a metalworker and designer are quickly noticed, and become a source of tension within the family. When Edgar comes to the attention of maverick profesor at work on a museum of the natural sciences, Edgar is at once plucked from obscurity and plunged into the heat of a debate which threatens to tear the university apart... -- back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: Headline Review, 2007.