The Twelfth Enchantment

The Twelfth Enchantment is a 2011 novel by David Liss. Lucy Derrick is a women of good breeding, and bad repute. When she was 16, she ran off with a man Jonas Morrison, and her tragic life began. Her sister died, her father died, and she was forced to live with her uncle, and his maid, who spend their time making Lucy miserable and trying to marry her off to a mill owner. Things change for Lucy when Lord Byron collapses at her home, leading her into magic and adventure. Will she defeat the mysterious forces gathering against her and all of England? This novel is set against the backdrop of a rapidly industrializing England.


 * Arc Words - 'Gather the Leaves"
 * Changeling Tale Lucy's niece is switched for a strange hungry creature.
 * Dead All Along
 * Golem -  Of the word for truth on forehead type.
 * Heroic Sacrifice - The sacrifice of a friend is stronger than any magic.
 * Historical Domain Character - Lord Byron plays a large part here- both as potential Love Interest and as a partner in magicial schemes. William Blake also makes an appearance.
 * Ludd Was Right - The view of many characters in this novel such as Mary Crawford and William Blake.
 * Magic A Is Magic A - Lucy states that magic is basically a more advanced branch of physics.
 * Our Fairies Are Different - apparently what fairies truly are
 * Slut Shaming - Lucy is considered Defiled Forever because she ran off with Jonas Morrison.
 * Take a Third Option - Lucy repeatedly says there must be a way between the mills and the Luddites.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever? - The undying here lose all sense of who they once were, and seek only for safety and their own pleasure.