Starling House

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.

''One of the most unique works of fiction I''ve ever read'' - Tamora Pierce on The Ten Thousand Doors of January Step into Starling House - if you dare . . . 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. 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. This is a sweeping gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.