
Starling House
The perfect dark, Gothic fairytale and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
By: Alix E. Harrow
Paperback | 3 January 2024
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Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Naomi Novik.
This paperback edition includes a bonus short story that reaches beyond the house's gnarly, tangled gates.
Opal is a lot of things - orphan, high-school dropout, full-time cynic. Most of all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother. One that gets them both out of Eden, a town renowned for bad luck. So when Opal gets the chance to earn a good wage at Starling House, Eden's very own haunted mansion, she can't resist.
Her new workplace is uncanny and full of secrets ÂÂ- just like Arthur, its brooding heir. It also feels strangely, dangerously, like something Opal never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Eden, Opal realizes she might finally have found a reason to stick around. But now she'll have to fight for it . . .
This is a romantic and spellbinding Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.
Praise for Starling House
'Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent' - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six
'Alix E. Harrow's greatest work yet' - Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning
'This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting' - Reese Witherspoon
**A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick**
Starling House was a No. 6 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 18/11/2023
About the Author
Alix E. Harrow is an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her full-length novels include The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches and Starling House.
Industry Reviews
Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent, and Starling House, with its gentle reassurances of the homes we make and the love we deserve, is more than satisfying. It's pure loveliness in book form -- Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six
Gorgeous, poignant, and honest - an unforgettable read -- Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter
The gaudy, dark seam between horror and romance. Starling House is Alix E. Harrow's greatest work yet - if you can survive its slow belly-crawl into hell -- Ava Reid, author of Juniper and Thorn
This is gothic fairy tale at its best and truest: dark and romantic, angry and hopeful . . . I loved it -- H. G. Parry, author of The Magician's Daughter
This book is as knife-edged and sharp as its protagonist, a rich and strange exploration of home and need and want . . . A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic -- Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians
ISBN: 9781529061147
ISBN-10: 1529061148
Published: 3rd January 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 448
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.3
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