Starling House :  The perfect dark, Gothic fairytale and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick - Alix E. Harrow

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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Step into Starling House, if you dare . . .

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 ­­- 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
This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid and eerie setting - plus, characters willing to risk everything -- Reese Witherspoon, Reese's Book Club October 2023 Pick

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

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