A historian on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton rents a cottagein southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissectsNewtons m... » 

A historian on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton rents a cottagein southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissectsNewtons mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysteriousoccupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined historiesto powerful effect. «