Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical and binds it with a knot of deathless
love. -New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches In
post-World War I England a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its
powerful secrets… With the stroke of a pen twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady
Hayworth owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood
Abbey or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in
London since losing her brother in the Great War she warily makes her way to her new home. The
abbey is foreboding the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting
behind locked doors: a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff Ivy feels
irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves where familiar works mingle with strange esoteric
texts. And she senses something else in the library too a presence that seems to have a will
of its own. Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey's previous owners about ghosts and
curses and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And as events grow more sinister
it will be up to Ivy to uncover the library's mysteries in order to reclaim her own
story-before it vanishes forever. Lush atmospheric and transporting The Last Heir to
Blackwood Library is a skillful reflection on memory and female agency and a love letter to
books from a writer at the height of her power.
