'EXTRAORDINARY... it already feels like a classic' EMERALD FENNELL, Oscar-winning director of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and SALTBURN
A literary twist on The Secret Garden for fans of Shirley Jackson, Piranesi and Unsettled Ground....
'Glitters with menace and mystery' Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters
'Part fable, part literary thriller...may be the elusive inheritor to Susanna Clarke's Piranesi' Vulture
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Nothing had come over the wall for a very long time. ....
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each...
Nick Newman is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed children’s author Nicholas Bowling. He has written four novels for young readers including In the Shadow of Heroes (shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award) and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest (Financial Times Best YA Books of 2023, Guardian Children’s Roundup December 2023). He works as a bookseller at Daunt Books.
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