Foundling
core novel 2006 Monster Blood Tattoo
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (8,257 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399246388 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamund Bookchild sets out from his orphanage to report to his new job as a lamplighter, keeper of the lamps that light the highways of the Half-Continent, a land of tricorne hats and flintlock pistols, of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. On the long journey he has several adventures and meets people and monsters who are more complicated than he had believed, among them the feared monster-hunter Europe, the Branden Rose, and he begins to wonder what a monster really is. The first book of the trilogy, illustrated by the author and complete with appendices, maps and a glossary.
Where it sits
- Universe: Monster Blood Tattoo
- Series: Monster Blood Tattoo core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: D. M. Cornish
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the G. P. Putnam's Sons first US edition (2006); first published in Australia by Omnibus Books.
- From the series record (Monster Blood Tattoo): Rossamund Bookchild's journey through the Half-Continent; later titled The Foundling's Tale.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Monster Blood Tattoo: position 1 of 3: next Lamplighter (2007)
Sources
- Risingshadow (publisher description)
- Random House (publisher description, via Worlds Without End)
- Uintah County Library catalogue (summary)
- Putnam (publisher description, via the book's record)
- Redeemed Reader (series review)
- Wikipedia (Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling)
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