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.
