#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love, and identity.“Engrossing, gorgeous, funny.” —The Globe and Mail “Magnificent.” —Montreal Review of Books “A reinvention for the bestselling author. . . . MacDonald’s fourth novel is a paean to the act of storytelling and a triumph that challenges the constructs of gender.” —Quill & Quire (starred review)In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely es