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Under the Pendulum Sun: A Novel of the Fae Paperback – Large Print, 28 November 2017

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Catherine Helstone's brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon but the Queen of the Fae and her maniacal court are hard on his heels. An unusually gripping Victorian-tinged fantasy set in a richly imagined High Gothic world.

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant; Large type / Large print edition (28 November 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 500 pages
ISBN-10 : 1525266268
ISBN-13 : 978-1525266263

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JEANNETTE NG is originally from Hong Kong but now lives in Durham, UK. Her MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies fed into an interest in medieval and missionary theology. She runs live roleplay games and used to sell costumes for a living. Under the Pendulum Sun is her debut novel.

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The Many-Angled One

A Gothic novel for the twenty-first century

Reviewed in Australia on 10 March 2018

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This is a gothic novel in the classic sense, because you have a heroine who travels to a creepy, large, isolated mansion where strange things happen. It's also a fantasy, because the creepy mansion is literally in Fairyland. And her lost brother is there to save the souls of the fae, who may not even have souls, so there's 19th-century Christian theological speculation thrown in to boot. Well written, hugely imaginative, great stuff. I will re-read this one, and I rarely re-read books. Jeannette Ng has put her name on my "read whatever they write" list.

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H Earnshaw

A fascinating and chilling read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2017

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This book takes its premise of Victorian missionaries travelling to Arcadia to convert the fae to Christianity and runs wild with it from the get-go, exploring with relish all of the strange implications of such a set-up. It is a gorgeous read that left me shaken in a good way.

Jeannette Ng writes the complexities of faith, undercurrents of creeping dread and slowly coming to horrifying realisations incredibly well. The creeping claustrophobia and strangeness of the old house Gethsemane is captured vividly, and the mysteries of the house and its inhabitants explored in true Gothic manner.

One of the things I was most looking forward to about this book was the grappling with theology and religion, which rarely feels done right in fiction. Pleasingly, Ng's religious characters are real and relatable, with thoughts, opinions and questions (so many questions!) about their faith, which waxes and wanes as they wrestle with doubts and mysteries they feel unable to answer. The story asks a lot about the place of these alien beings in Christ's redemption. The answers that it suggests are both chilling and strangely hopeful. I also feel like I have an interesting new perspective on the parable of the mustard seed...

The story also deals a lot with sin - of characters trying to escape something shameful, trying to justify it to themselves, facing temptation, and having to face the horror when those justifications fall away and the truth is laid bare. Under The Pendulum Sun examines this unflinchingly. It is a dark tale and not comfortable reading, but the subject matter is well handled and the characters are left, by the end, in a place which surprised me by its hope.

Overall, this is a beautiful, deeply intelligent, dark story in a wonderfully realised setting, and a book I think I'll find myself returning to in the future.

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Horror, mystery, fantasy and Victorian gothic come together to make an unsettling and evocative read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2018

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Weird, eerie and definitely gripping – a mix of horror, mystery, fantasy and Victorian gothic come together to make an unsettling and evocative read.

Catherine Helstone’s brother, Leon, is a missionary to the incredible land of Arcadia – the land of the Fae, discovered only by getting lost. Leon has been sent out to replace the previous missionary and bring Christianity to the strange land, but his letters have been sporadic and strange. Cathy has been offered the chance to travel out to see him – and see the land of the Fae.

But when she reaches Gethsemane, a strange house in the middle of foggy moors, she finds Leon missing, their manservant full of strange questions and fierce faith, and a house riddled with questions – all under a swinging, pendulum sun and a angler-fish moon that roves the sky. She dreams of Leon in the arms of a Fae woman and struggles to decipher the diaries of the previous missionary, as well as exploring the grounds and uncovering the mysteries of the half-Fae, half-human Changeling who is her companion at the house…

And then Leon returns, and brings with him the Pale Queen, her Court, and her flurry of mysteries…

I loved the developing tension and relationship between Leon and Cathy; so familiar and yet so alien, and the unsettling twists in the second half of the book are woven expertly from the threads played at the start. The mysteries all overlap with brilliant horror, and the strangeness of the Fae overlaps with the unknowns of their surroundings in Arcadia; the theological puzzles mix with the mysteries of the previous missionary and his diaries; and the Pale Queen’s manipulations and games wind around Leon and Catherine’s own relationships, both with each other and with the others around them.

If you’re into eerie fantasy mixed with horror, this is definitely worth a read.

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Matt Dovey

Like a Lost Victorian Classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2018

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"Victorian missionaries in fairyland" was enough to sell me on it, and it should be for you, too

Jeannette Ng nails the voice *so perfectly* that this feels like uncovering a lost literary classic. It is the richest, most beautiful tapestry of detail and imagination. I can't adequately express the gorgeous texture of it: iIt's like a lined curtain with an intricate pattern; it's like a dense fruitcake of two dozen ingredients; it's like the thick velvety feel of moss under bare feet. It's rendition of Faerie is so perfect, sprinkling just enough references throughout its mad invention, as to become archetypal.

What's most remarkable about the book is the subtlety it wields in the relationship between the two leads. (Everyone who's read it will know *exactly* what I'm talking about here.) There is a thread in the book that is layered in so deftly you think you're imagining it at first, and the realisation that you're not being teased but you were just subconsciously picking up on it grows so slowly and expertly you're doubting yourself up until the moment it's laid out in front of you. It's an incredibly skilled debut.

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Alyssia Cooke

Grindingly slow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2019

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I really wanted to love this and it comes as a disappointment that I simply couldn't. The mix of fantasy in a fae land and theology should have been right up my street and yet from beginning to end there was something missing from this. It is definitely a grindingly slow book, heavily invested in Christian theology and mission, particularly how this would interact with the fae in all different forms and guises. The problem certainly wasn't in the world building which is immersive and inventive, filled with wondrous variety of creatures and marvels. It isn't the writing style, which is actively poetic at points.

The problem really lies with the pacing and the narrative I suppose. It would be truer to say that this doesn't go anywhere at all than that it goes somewhere slowly. And whilst I find theology interesting, it doesn't take the place of movement and action... of which there is very very little. A lot of time is devoted to characterisations, discussions and relationships between both humans and fae, but not a lot actually happens. What get therefore is a vivid world filled with fascinating and periodically frightening characters, but a narrative that seems to stand still. It took me an abnormally long time to read and I was never completely enamoured or dying to get back to it!

There is also a rather disturbing romantic aspect to this that I can't quite get behind. I mean I understand it is the authors prerogative, but it gave it a rather seedy air which I personally found unnecessary. Plus the deceit behind it should have been obvious from the start, but perhaps you ignore reason when given an opportunity to have something you really want.

Mr. A Weston

In this case, a picture doesn't do justice to the words. Stunning!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2020

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They say, “A picture paints a thousand words.”
Well, the imagery incorporated within Jeannette Ng’s outstanding masterpiece, “Under the Pendulum Sun”, creates an infinite landscape, delightful to behold:
Catherine Helstone’s brother disappeared while on a missionary expedition to Arcadia, the fabled land of the magical fae. Concerned for his welfare, she sets out on a hazardous journey, determined to uncover the truth.
But some truths are best left hidden.
And the fae themselves might not lead the fairytale existence that everyone imagines they do.
Arcadia is an ever evolving conjugation of breathtaking confusion and mind-warping wonder, you see. Its very existence is a constant flux, where breath-on-the-back-of-the-neck, glimpsed-out-of-the-corner-of-one-eye occurrences fill your every waking moment, just as often as taking a walk, or getting dressed. The people and creatures that inhabit this realm are the stuff of both dream and nightmare. Nothing is as it appears to be.
That’s what our heroine has to contend with.
And it’s not until Catherine appreciates that she has to let go of her preconceived notions and beliefs that she’ll be able to grasp the significance of what she needs to do to solve the mystery or her brother’s disappearance, and that of Arcadia itself. But doing so will change her life forever.
Bravo to Jeannette Ng. Under the Pendulum Sun, is a powerfully intimate story about the dangers of forbidden fruit, and how easily such things might entangle you if you but dare to take a bite.

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