MAD STIRRING BLOOD. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn but author's large,bold handwritten, black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,matt,wrap-around white background with b/w repeated illustration to dw/dj panels with glossy embossed red+black capitalised title+author's name and other black+red lettering to front panel,repeated coloured glossy capitalised lettered title+author name and with thumbnail b/w detail from front's illustration to spine/backstrip,rear panel with critics' black+red lettered reviews; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean with very light toning but without any foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a black+red striped headband and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn, vii-ixpp+1-399pp [paginated] includes Principal Players list (American+British),a Historical Note - both pages with blank verso,a Prologue,Acts 1-5,each with varying number of chapters,and to the rear,author's note,and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title, author SIGNED title page,a dedication with blank verso,epigrams (2),b/w plan of Dartmoor Prison illustration,a regional West Country b/w map with map inset,individual Acts separator pages,and to the rear, William Cobbett prose extract,Dartmoor Massacre (6 April,1815) report, cknowledgements and a note about the author as the last page.
As a best-selling author of numerous children's and YA (Young Adults) novels,this is the author's debut adult novel. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness and lack of detracting faults.
1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison,peace like home is still a long way away.On the eve of the year 1815,the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison, bedraggled, exhausted but burning with hope.They've only had one thing to sustain them,a snatched whisper overheard along the way. The war is over.
Joe Hill thought he'd left the war outside these walls but it's quickly clear that there's a different type of fight to be had within.The seven prison blocks surrounding him have been segregated,six white and one black.As his voice rings out across the courtyard, announcing the peace,the redcoat guards bristle and the inmates stir.The powder keg was already fixed to blow and Joe has just lit the fuse.
Elizabeth Shortland,wife of the Governor looks down at the swirling crowd from the window of her own personal prison.The peace means the end is near,that she needn't be here for ever.But suddenly,she cannot bear the thought of leaving.
Inspired by a true story 'Mad Blood Stirring' tells of a few frantic months in the suffocating atmosphere of a prison awaiting liberation.It is a story of hope and freedom,of loss and suffering.It is a story about how sometimes,in our darkest hour,it can be the most unlikely of things that see us through.
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