Epiphany - The Golding eBook

"Sophisticated and thought-provoking

... an urban fairy tale for grown-ups." --Avid Ashley

**GOLD MEDAL Winner

Global Ebook Awards, USA

**SILVER MEDAL Winner

Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest, USA

**GOLD AWARD Winner

Literary Titan Book Awards, USA

**RED RIBBON Winner

The Wishing Shelf Awards, UK

**BEST BOOK WE'VE READ ALL YEAR Finalist

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History, mystery, contemporary romance and magic ... A whimsical tale about money and its unknown otherworldly origins.

It is midnight, and you are sleeping. I am here at the table with a candle at my elbow, penning the most difficult letter I have ever had to write.

They are coming for me. Samuel Withers saw them in the village...

ENGLAND 1767

Edward Lillibridge is writing a farewell letter to his son. The controversial reverend faces trial for heresy after revealing, in a book, the true beginnings of money.

FAST FORWARD TO 2008

...six months before the Global Financial Crisis rocks the economy. Lillibridge's Our True Ancient History-published under the guise of fiction-is out of print, available only at antiquarian bookshops and largely overlooked. Until now.

Rosetta Melki, an idealist whose dream of starting a worldwide charity has been all but crushed by her solo-parent struggles, is enchanted by Our True Ancient History. Lillibridge's tale about a gold-obsessed empire (and the sprites they oppress: elfin clan dwellers whose currency of choice is kindness) has evoked a memory Rosetta cannot explain.

Rosetta's website, built around the book group she started with friends, has kindled a constellation-both literal and virtual-of Lillibridge clubs. Their Sydney circle gathers fortnightly at her lamplit cottage-a vintage rental she found after escaping a terrifying intruder.

In a more affluent part of Sydney, finance executive Matthew Weissler (polished, successful, admired) has been questioning his slave-to-the-dollar existence and...