Michael Cox became famous with his first novel, “The Meaning of Night,” written towards the end of his life in spite of a fatal illness. It was one of the most amazing bestsellers of the new century, and a real war broke out over the rights to the book, and the price of the issue reached half a million pounds sterling, unprecedented for a debut novel. The author still managed to return to the same characters in his second - and last - novel, The Mirror of Time. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst comes from Paris to the Evenwood estate, Northamptonshire, and enters the service of the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor, née Miss Emily Carteret. However, Esperanza is not a simple servant; she has a secret mission. She is tasked by her guardian Madame Delorme and her mysterious mentor Mr. Thornhow to find out the secrets jealously kept by the Baroness in order to correct a long-standing injustice. Injustice, which is based, perhaps, on blood...