FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN AND JUNIPER AND THORN '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 at her prestigious architecture college. So when the late
author's family announces a contest to design his house Effy feels 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. A Study in Drowning - New York Times and Sunday Times
bestseller w e 1st October 2023.
