An instant No. 1 Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a twisting tale of power, immortality and the terrifying price of freedom from V. E.
Schwab. Three women share one desire: to break the rules men use to bind them. 1532.
Le?n, Spain: Mar?a, wild and wily, knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers her a dark alternative path, Mar?a makes a desperate choice. 1827.
London: Charlotte lives a cloistered life, her heart full of impossible wants. Swept away by a beautiful widow’s invitation, Charlotte discovers she can buy her freedom ? if she sells her soul. 2019.
Boston: Alice moved across the world to escape her past. But a one-night stand gives her a thirst for answers . .
. and retribution. Defying time and all odds, these women?s fates become tangled like roots.
This is a story about life: how it ends, and how it starts again. * * * ‘A rich, lush labyrinth of a book . .
. It had me by the throat from the first page’? Emma Stonex’Nobody can write like V. E.
Schwab’? Jodi Picoult’I absolutely devoured it . . .
It’s utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic’? Bridget Collins’Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller . . .
goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail’? The New York Times?Spanning centuries, this entrancing queer love story follows three women . . .
Lyrical and immersive?? Cosmopolitan V. E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16/06/2025
