A deliciously dark fairy tale full of the agony and ecstasy of longing and desire' KATHERINE WEBBER, author of Twin Crowns

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I was a dead thing, in my heart. I knew it like a poison I drank each night and purged each morning. I knew that I was isolated, but I didn’t understand my loneliness until I knew what I would give to escape it. What I would be willing to do.When several minutes had passed without him looking up, I said, ‘Perhaps I could help you with your papers? I’ve said you need a secretary.’ From the first line this was glorious and beautifully tender. A lyrical Gothic tale with strong fairytale elements about loneliness and love, and how the two intertwine. In the cathedral, the cluster of candles at the shrines swelled each day. Not a single companion had ever returned after being chosen by the Witch. Minaccia Accresciuta ma anche meno Minaccia Accresciuta ma anche meno Minaccia Accresciuta ma anche meno

Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn (9781839132957/Paperback) | LoveReading

A series of menu cards and sheets of notepaper were scattered on the tables between her and her daughters.In the far edge of our land was the family chapel. My mother wasn’t in the crypt with my father’s parents; she had a grave of her own, a chest tomb in white limestone, watched over by an angel, head bowed holding a never-wilting bouquet of flowers. It was extravagant and sometimes I wonder if my father did it as penance for what had come next. I looked at my delicate stitches, the rough texture of the tree bark and the velvety fungi. ‘I like it.’