The Briar Book of the Dead

Resumen del libro

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily's Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid. Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations. The Briar family of witches run the town of Silverton, caring for its inhabitants with their skills and magic.

In the usual scheme of things, they would be burnt for their sorcery, but the church has given them dispensation in return for their protection of the borders of the Darklands, where the much-feared Leech Lords hold sway. Ellie is being trained as a steward, administering for the town, and warding off the insistent interest of the church. When her grandmother dies suddenly, Ellie's cousin Audra rises to the position of Briar Witch, propelling Ellie into her new role.

As she navigates fresh challenges, an unexpected new ability to see and speak to the dead leads her to uncover sinister family secrets, stories of burnings, lost grimoires and evil spells. Reeling from one revelation to the next, she seeks answers from the long dead and is forced to decide who to trust, as a devastating plot threatens to destroy everything the Briar witches have sacrificed so much to build. Told in the award-winning author's trademark gorgeous, addictive prose, this is an intricately woven tale of a family of witches struggling against the bonds of past sins and persecution.

Biografía del autor

Angela Slatter es autora de las novelas negras sobrenaturales Vigil, Corpselight y Restoration, las novelas cortas Of Sorrow and Such y Ripper, así como de diez antologías de historias cortas, incluidas The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Masa madre y otros relatos, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings y A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. Vigil fue nominada al Dublin Literary Award en 2018. Slatter ha ganado un premio World Fantasy, un British Fantasy Award, un Ditmar, un Australian Shadows Award y seis Aurealis Awards.<br> Sus historias cortas han aparecido con regularidad en las antologías Best Of de Australia, Reino Unido y EE. UU.Sus obras han sido traducidas al búlgaro, al chino, al ruso, al italiano, al español, al japonés, al polaco, al francés y al rumano. Tiene un máster y un doctorado en Escritura Creativa, se graduó en Clarion South en 2009 y en la Tin House Summer Workshop en 2006, y en 2013 se le concedió una de las primeras becas Queensland Writers Fellowships.El rumor de los huesos es una fantasía gótica ambientada en el mundo de las antologías Masa madre y Bitterwood.<br> Síguela en Twitter: AngelaSlatter.