Starling House

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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six

Step into Starling House – if you dare . . . Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Naomi Novik.

No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the house – and its last, lonely heir – go to rot. Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

But Opal isn’t the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it. She’ll have to dig up her family’s ugly history and let herself dream of a better future. She’ll have to go down, down into Underland, and claw her way back to the light . . .

This is a romantic and spellbinding Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.

'Starling House is Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet' - Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning

‘Gorgeous, poignant, and honest – an unforgettable read’ - Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

Critics Review

  • This book has everything you could possibly want this fall . . . a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid and eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything

    Reese Witherspoon, Reese's Book Club October 2023 Pick

  • Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent, and Starling House, with its gentle reassurances of the homes we make and the love we deserve, is more than satisfying. It’s pure loveliness in book form

    Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six

  • Gorgeous, poignant, and honest—an unforgettable read

    Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

  • The gaudy, dark seam between horror and romance. Starling House is Alix E. Harrow’s greatest work yet – if you can survive its slow belly-crawl into hell

    Ava Reid, author of Juniper and Thorn

  • This is gothic fairy tale at its best and truest: dark and romantic, angry and hopeful . . . I loved it

    H.G. Parry, author of The Magician's Daughter

  • This book is as knife-edged and sharp as its protagonist, a rich and strange exploration of home and need and want . . . A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic

    Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians

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