His father wants him to keep an eye out for certain things he needs to know. His mother wants contact with a fellow scientist. His grandmother wants some embarrassing letters back.
Aubrey isn’t allowed to relax, though each member of his family gives him an item to add to a shopping list of tasks to perform while he’s over there. With his schoolfriend George and a brilliant and feisty young lady called Caroline, he saved the Crown Prince Albert (otherwise known as his cousin Bertie) and foiled a plot by the realm’s head magician which would have started this world’s version of World War I.Īt the beginning of Heart of Gold, Aubrey and George, who desperately need a holiday before starting university, head for Gallia (France) where Caroline is already studying at the university of Lutetia (Paris). He’s discovered that being dead can really mess up a chap’s lifestyle. He is - literally - holding body and soul together, to avoid having his soul float off into the realm of true death. Like other geniuses, he simply can’t resist experimenting and at the start of the first novel, he did something truly stupid, experimenting with horribly dangerous death magic. Unlike the magic of the Harry Potter universe, it isn’t genetically-based, but something you can learn at school and then practice as a career.Īubrey is a magical genius. The laws of magic of the series title are a lot like the laws of physics - “ye cannae change them, Captain” - although you can mix and match and adapt them if you know what you’re doing. Well, admittedly it’s done best in such ancient languages as Chaldean. In this world, magic is a science, totally unconnected with superstition or the summoning of demons, ouija boards or midnight rituals.
In the first novel in the Laws of Magic series, Blaze of Glory, we met Aubrey Fitzwilliam, son of an aristocratic family in the land of Albion, an alternative universe version of Edwardian England.
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