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LUX
A cathedral of a novel: awe-inspiring, echoing, timeless, and holy.
King David sings his psalms. A world away, King Henry plots. And Thomas Wyatt sees them both, his beloved falcon Lukkes on his arm.
Henry believes he must have what he wants. He wants Ann, a divorce, a son. He looks up at his tapestry of David and sees a mighty predecessor who wilfully took what he wanted.
Working on a new translation of the psalms, courtier-poet Wyatt sees something else: a different David, one who repented loudly and long, in song as in life.
As David pursues Bathsheba, Henry courts Ann, and Wyatt interweaves the past and present.
LUX is a story of faith and fidelity, power and its abuses, love and its flights.
Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author, poet, librettist, and scholar. She has been the British Academy Chatterton Lecturer and a Hawthornden Fellow, and has written for publications including the London Review of Books. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of the acclaimed novel Achilles which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier's The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC.
King David sings his psalms. A world away, King Henry plots. And Thomas Wyatt sees them both, his beloved falcon Lukkes on his arm.
Henry believes he must have what he wants. He wants Ann, a divorce, a son. He looks up at his tapestry of David and sees a mighty predecessor who wilfully took what he wanted.
Working on a new translation of the psalms, courtier-poet Wyatt sees something else: a different David, one who repented loudly and long, in song as in life.
As David pursues Bathsheba, Henry courts Ann, and Wyatt interweaves the past and present.
LUX is a story of faith and fidelity, power and its abuses, love and its flights.
Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author, poet, librettist, and scholar. She has been the British Academy Chatterton Lecturer and a Hawthornden Fellow, and has written for publications including the London Review of Books. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of the acclaimed novel Achilles which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier's The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC.
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Published 2019-04-01 by Scribe Publications |