Reclusive academic Lord Noblet de Beeble doesn't want to get married but his overbearing mother says that he must. He places an ad for a wife in his local newspaper & the national press pick up on it. In a summer packed with suspicious exes, snobbery and social climbers, the village of Gently Rising bear witness to a public courtship like no other.
When Bella Black arrives in a sleepy Wiltshire village, it seems like the perfect place for a new start. A lovely home, exciting job and an attractive colleague or two to take her mind off her recent divorce. When people start disappearing, she realises she holds the key to a mystery bigger than she could have ever imagined.
The Art of Science explores the work of forty artists and artist-scientists whose work has furthered and made visible the relationship between these fields.