The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

H. G. Parry

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Orbit Books
29 October 2024

Fantasy; Mysticism, magic & ritual; Fantasy

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'Easily my favourite read of this year . . .

an unputdownable, bittersweet tale'

Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic

All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.

Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England's secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither connections nor magical blood. She tells herself she has fought her way there only to find a cure for her brother Matthew, one of the few survivors of a faerie attack on the battlefields of WWI which left the doors to faerie country sealed, the study of its magic banned, and its victims cursed.

But when Clover catches the eye of golden boy Alden Lennox-Fontaine and his friends, doors that were previously closed to her are flung wide open, and she soon finds herself enmeshed in the seductive world of the country's magical aristocrats. The summer she spends in Alden's orbit leaves a fateful mark: months of joyous friendship and mutual study come crashing down when experiments go awry, and old secrets are unearthed.

Years later, when the faerie seals break, Clover knows it's because of what they did. And she knows that she must seek the help of people she once called friends-and now doesn't quite know what to call-if there's any hope of saving the world as they know it.

'By turns wondrous, haunting and mysterious . . . historical fantasy at its finest"" Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul

By: H. G. Parry
Imprint: Orbit Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780356520322
ISBN 10: 0356520323
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 29 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

H.G. Parry lives in a book-infested flat in Wellington, New Zealand, which she shares with her sister and two overactive rabbits. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and teaches English, Film, and Media Studies. She is also the author of The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep and a variety of short fiction.

Reviews for The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

By turns wondrous, haunting and mysterious, The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door asks big questions and delivers all the right answers. This book is historical fantasy at its finest -- Olivia Atwater, author of HALF A SOUL The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is a rare treat of a novel. H. G. Parry breathes magic and history to life - weaving the eerie lore of faerie through the glittering Jazz Age of the 1920s. I devoured this book with wide eyes and a racing heart, and I have no doubt that others will do the same -- Ryan Graudin, author of THE ENCHANTED LIES OF CELESTE ARTOIS