# The Ingenious Edgar Jones

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- Book: [The Ingenious Edgar Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-garner/the-ingenious-edgar-jones) ([The Ingenious Edgar Jones.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-garner/the-ingenious-edgar-jones.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth Garner](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-garner)
- Publisher: headline_review
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7221-121-7
- Published: 2013-12-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Set in nineteenth-century Oxford, and shot through with a powerful sense of magic, Elizabeth Garner's new novel will appeal both to fans of historical fiction and to the huge Susanna Clarke/Philip Pullman fanbase. In nineteenth-century Oxford, an extraordinary child is born - Edgar Jones, a porter's son with a magical talent. Though his father cannot see beyond his academic slowness, 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 a maverick professor at work on a museum of the natural sciences, Edgar is at once plucked from obscurity and plunged into the heart of a debate which threatens to tear apart the university. Edgar's position is a dangerous one - will he be able to control the rebellious spirit that fires his inventiveness, but threatens to ruin him, and to break up his family once and for all?