The Path of Thorns

Resumen del libro

A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced. Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children.

Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible - and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke.

However, she becomes fond of her charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan - and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice. From the author of All the Murmuring Bones, dark magic, retribution and twisted family secrets combine to weave a bewitching and beautifully written gothic fairy tale

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.