Anna Smaill
1) The chimes
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"After the end of a brutal civil war, England is divided, and Oxford a city of elites walled off from the populace. Monk-like masters are selected for special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the Chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance. A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise,...