Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
By (Author) V. E. Schwab
Pan Macmillan
Tor
10th June 2025
International edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fantasy
Dark fantasy
Occult fiction
Paperback
544
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into. Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.
For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality -- Neil Gaiman on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Completely absorbed me enough to make me forget the real world -- Jodi Picoult on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war . . . you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store -- Naomi Novik on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie Larue is a book perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality. [This novel] isironicallyunforgettable -- Alix E. Harrow on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime. . . . A defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate, and even death itselfand a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love -- Peng Shepherd on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Schwabs page-turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make ones mark on the world -- Oprah.com, Best LGBTQ Books of 2020 on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
VICTORIA 'V. E.' SCHWAB is the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades universe, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts series, Gallant, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Fragile Threads of Power. When not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.