My title says it all, really. I read this book when it first came out and very much enjoyed the detail and sensibility.
Sidonie Quince, a bright, pragmatic, and humorously sharp-tongued girl in Elizabethan England, prefers the "reassuring certainties" of Euclid and mathematics to the misty world of alchemy and fortune telling. Yet she has inherited the talent of scrying (crystal gazing) from her late mother.
Decades have past since I was a young adult and yet I found "The Alchemist's Daughter" just as suitable for an 'old' adult. I read it in one sitting, revelling in the details of Elizabethan England and the world of alchemy.
Steeped in a bit of Elizabethian history, this is an interesting tale about a young girl with abilities beyond the norm.
