PublishedTitan Books, September 2023 |
ISBN9781785658709 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13cm |
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and A Darker Shade of Magic comes a standalone novel where The Secret Garden meets Stardust.
Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father, and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, and her father by degrees, and her voice was a thing she never had to start with.
She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she's never met, her father's older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty, save for the servants.
Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don't go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate's western edge.
Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood...
A true bookworm, Steph has been working in bookshops for over 5 years! A keen student of history and current affairs, she is always up to date with new non-fiction releases. Ultimately though her heart lies with fiction. From Modern Literature to the occasional Sci-fi and Fantasy, Steph always has a long list of recommendations to offer.
Olivia is drawn to the power of secrets and magic. What is real, what isn't? All she has left of her mother is a disjointed journal, but when she is summoned to a grand family estate she didn't know existed, she discovers a family history dictated by shadows, a garden wall and a curse. Whimsical, dark, and infused with the same enchantment as a fairytale, Gallant is a perfect gothic fantasy that explores the basic human desire of familial love.
