Matthew Skelton was born in the UK and spent most of his childhood in Canada. He has a PhD in English Literature from Oxford University. His debut novel was the New York Times bestseller Endymion Spring. 
The Story of Cirrus Flux by Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton’s The Story of Cirrus Flux is an uneven YA novel that solidly entertains, though one wishes for stronger characters and a greater sense of place.
The Story of Cirrus Flux is set in London, 1783. The title character is an orphan whose father was a famed Antarctic explorer years ago, though Cirrus doesn’t discover this for some time. The book opens in 1756 during one of Cirrus’ father’s journeys, in which he managed to find and contain a small sample of the mysterious “Breath of God.” Unbeknownst to Cirrus, he left this sample to his son before leaving on another expedition, financed by the Guild of Empirical Scientists, in which he attempted to find more of the Breath and from which he never returned.
We flash ahead to 1783, when scientific experimentation was flowering... Read More
