A Study in Drowning (UK Signed & Numbered Copy)

Ava Reid

ISBN 10: 1529150507 / ISBN 13: 9781529150506

Published by Del Rey, London, 2023

About this Item

First Printing. The Book is very fine, square, tight and unread. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks and has decorated edges to the page block. The book has been signed by the author by means of a tipped-in limitation title page and is numbered (67 of 2000). The book was published in decorative boards without a dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the Author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Study in Drowning (UK Signed & Numbered Copy)
• Publisher: Del Rey, London
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529150507
• ISBN 13: 9781529150506
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN AND JUNIPER AND THORN

'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling.' Allison Saft, author of A Far Wilder Magic.

Effy 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 at her prestigious architecture college. So when the late author's family announces a contest to design his house, Effy feels 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 be trusted. There are dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin.




A Study in Drowning - New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, w/e 1st October 2023.

About the Author

Ava Reid is the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed adult fantasies Juniper & Thorn and The Wolf and the Woodsman, as well as A Study in Drowning. After obtaining her degree in political science from Barnard College, she moved to Palo Alto, where she continues to haunt university libraries.