Description
Product ID: | 9781529061123 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Starling House |
Subtitle: | A Sunday Times bestseller and the perfect dark Gothic fairytale |
Authors: | Author: Alix E. Harrow |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Fantasy romance, Fantasy romance |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Opal Gravely has spent her life obsessed with the mysterious Starling House – but when its reclusive heir offers her a job, she discovers there may be monsters lurking within. This is a sweeping, Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January. <p><b>A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick<br><br>‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ - </b>Olivie Blake, author of<b> <i>The Atlas Six</i></b><br><br><b>Step into Starling House </b>– <b>if you dare . . . Alix E. Harrow reimagines <i>Beauty and the Beast </i>in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Naomi Novik.</b><br><br>No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the house – and its last, lonely heir – go to rot. Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.<br><br>But Opal isn’t the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it. She’ll have to dig up her family’s ugly history and let herself dream of a better future. She’ll have to go down, down into Underland, and claw her way back to the light . . .<br><br><b>This is a romantic and spellbinding Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.<br><br><i>'Starling House</i> is Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet' -</b> Ava Reid, author of <i>A Study in Drowning</i><br><br><b>‘Gorgeous, poignant, and honest – an unforgettable read’ </b>- Andrea Stewart, author of <i>The Bone Shard Daughter</i></p> |
Imprint Name: | Tor |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-10-31 |