Unspeakable Things - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth HandTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Sex & Gender/Lesbian, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:10/13/2026Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316579056ISBN-10:031657905XUPC:9780316579056Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Gothic, Thrillers, HistoricalBook Topic:Suspense, 20th CenturyProduct ID:SCQ42S50GM
A chance meeting on a windswept English moor sparks an obsessive--and soon deadly--love affair between two lonely young women in this clever inversion of the Gothic classics, with a fresh spin that could only come from the award-winning author of A Haunting on the Hill. It's the 1920s and the English countryside is quiet--which suits Olivia and Tamsin, two young women happy to be overlooked by society. Their relationship is complicated: unruly, working-class Tamsin was brought to Kerrith Manor to be tutored at Olivia's side, but the two quickly have found something more than friendship--a bone-deep recognition that ignites an endless passion. But an unexpected visitor and an unexplained death disrupt their idyll, sending both women on the run. They find harbor at Ledges, the dazzling estate of ruthlessly wealthy and mysterious Rex de Voil--and a favorite hang-out for the bohemian "bright young things" eager to cut loose far from London's prying eyes. Olivia and Tamsin revel in their newfound freedom...until they learn that nothing in Rex's world is without cost. Richly evoking a vibrant time in queer history, Unspeakable Things is a seductive historical thriller that explores the haunting bond between two women coming into their power even as it unspools their obsession to its deadly end. "A dark delight." --Publishers Weekly "Propulsive and heart-stopping: a story about desire as a weapon." --Lisa Gabriele, author of The Winters "Evok[es] the period's glamorous excesses and social dangers with atmospheric menace and knife-edged desire... [A] must-read." --Booklist (starred review)
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316579056ISBN-10:031657905XUPC:9780316579056Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Gothic, Thrillers, HistoricalBook Topic:Suspense, 20th CenturyProduct ID:SCQ42S50GM
Elizabeth Hand is the author of A Haunting on the Hill, the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar, as well as Hokuloa Road, named a Notable Book of 2022 by the New York Times, and more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards, and she's written for publications including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and more. She divides her time between Maine and London.
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