The Death of Jane Lawrence
368 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author, NINTH HOUSE meets MEXICAN GOTHIC in this a gothic fantasy horror
āStarlingās gothic horror is a tale that haunts you even after youāre done.Ā The Death of Jane LawrenceĀ isĀ Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellĀ with sharp teeth and aĀ Crimson PeakĀ youāre scared to look in the eye.ā āLinden A. Lewis, author ofĀ The First Sister
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid manāone who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. ThisĀ Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson andĀ Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.
The Death of Jane Lawrence
368 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author, NINTH HOUSE meets MEXICAN GOTHIC in this a gothic fantasy horror
āStarlingās gothic horror is a tale that haunts you even after youāre done.Ā The Death of Jane LawrenceĀ isĀ Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellĀ with sharp teeth and aĀ Crimson PeakĀ youāre scared to look in the eye.ā āLinden A. Lewis, author ofĀ The First Sister
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid manāone who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. ThisĀ Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson andĀ Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.
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368 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author, NINTH HOUSE meets MEXICAN GOTHIC in this a gothic fantasy horror
āStarlingās gothic horror is a tale that haunts you even after youāre done.Ā The Death of Jane LawrenceĀ isĀ Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellĀ with sharp teeth and aĀ Crimson PeakĀ youāre scared to look in the eye.ā āLinden A. Lewis, author ofĀ The First Sister
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid manāone who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. ThisĀ Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson andĀ Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.
