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A STUDY IN DROWNING - AVA REID TASCHENBUCH

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NYT BESTSELLING NOVEL  FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN
'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling.' Allison
Saft  author of A Far Wilder Magic   Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She's had no
choice. Since childhood  she's been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She's found solace
only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the
Fairy King  and then destroys him.  Effy's tattered copy is all that's keeping her afloat
through her stifling first term her prestigious architecture college. So when the late author's
family announces a contest to design his house  Effy fells certain this is her destiny.  But
Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty  decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a
hungry sea. And when Effy arrives  she finds she isn't the only one who's made a temporary home
there. Preston Héloury  a stodgy young literature scholar  is studying Myrddin's papers and is
determined to prove her favourite author is a fraud.  As the two rival students investigate the
reclusive author's legacy  piecing together clues through his letters  books  and diaries  they
discover that the house's foundation isn't the only thing that can't be trusted. There are dark
forces  both mortal and magical  conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to
ruin.  Sunday Times bestseller  September 2023  New York Times bestseller  November 2023

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