Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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. León, Spain: Marìa, wild and wily, knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers her a dark alternative path, Marìa 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.

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'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}

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