A STUDY IN DROWNING

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO 1 NYT BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN A love letter to stories and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling Allison Saft author of A Far Wilder MagicEffy has always believed in fairy tales She s had no choice Since childhood she s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King She s found solace only in the pages of Angharad a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King and then destroys him Effy s tattered copy is all that s keeping her afloat through her stifling first term her prestigious architecture college So when the late author s family announces a contest to design his house Effy fells certain this is her destiny But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task a musty decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea And when Effy arrives she finds she isn t the only one who s made a temporary home there Preston Héloury a stodgy young literature scholar is studying Myrddin s papers and is determined to prove her favourite author is a fraud As the two rival students investigate the reclusive author s legacy piecing together clues through his letters books and diaries they discover that the house s foundation isn t the only thing that can t b