"This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick)
Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
I dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen….
Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago.
All she left behind were dark rumors—and her home. Everyone agrees that it’s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway.
I should be scared, but in the dream I don’t hesitate.
Opal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. When she gets the chance to step inside Starling House—and make some extra cash for her brother's escape fund—she can't resist.
But sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House, and Arthur’s own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around.
In my dream, I’m home.
And now she’ll have to fight.
Welcome to Starling House: enter, if you dare.
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"This is a delightful, satisfying novel, a tale of women's battle for equality, of fairy tales twisted into wonderfully witchy spells, of magics both large and small, and history re-imagined. All of it is told in Alix Harrow's exquisite language and with her vivid characterizations-a great pleasure to read."
— Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches, on The Once and Future Witches
“This book has everything you could possibly want this fall…a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.”
— Reese Witherspoon“A gothic fantasy of immense quality.”
— Barnes&Noble.com"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, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas SixGorgeous, poignant, and honest—an unforgettable read.
— Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard DaughterAs knife-edged and sharp as its protagonist...A smart, spectacular contemporary Gothic that will leave its roots in you and linger in your dreams.
— Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of MagiciansDevastatingly good, a sharp, delicate nested tale of worlds within worlds, stories within stories, and the realm-cracking power of words.
— Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author, on The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryA brilliant dazzle of a book. This story of sisters and witches, memory and power cracked open my heart and set down roots there. I devoured it in enormous gulps, and utterly loved it.
— Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians, on The Once and Future WitchesA love letter to folklore and the rebellious women of history.
— Publishers Weekly, on The Once and Future WitchesOne of the most unique works of fiction I’ve ever read.
— Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author, on The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryI couldn’t put it down.
— Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M, on The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryOne for the favorites shelf... Here is a book to make you happy when you gently close it. Here you will find wonder and questions and an unceasingly gorgeous love of words which compasses even the shape a letter makes against a page.
— NPR on The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryA love letter to imagination, adventure, the written word, and the power of many kinds of love.
— Kirkus Reviews on The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryA breathtaking book-brilliant and raw and dark and complicated. It's also, to be blunt, uncannily relevant.
— Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars, on The Once and Future WitchesThis book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen.
— P. Djèlí Clark, author of The Black God's Drums, on The Once and Future WitchesBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Alix E. Harrow, a former academic, is a Hugo-award winning writer. She is the author of three novels in the Fractured Fables series, three stand-alone novels, novellas, and short stories. Her works have been finalists for the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, and others. Find her on Twitter.
Natalie Naudus is one of the most beloved audiobook narrators working today and now author of her debut novel, Gay the Pray Away.