‘A gripping and beautifully plotted story told with verve and deliciously dark wit’Daily Mail. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, and Let the Right One In This is a story of escape, a mother’s savage devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself… Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends.Ĭhildren are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. Schwab ‘A vampire-themed Handmaid’s Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary’ GuardianĪ gorgeous new fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart… 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I devoured this’ V.E. “A darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths we go to for the ones we love. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.īut real life doesn’t always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.ĭevon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious.
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it. Truth is found between the stories we’re fed and the stories we hunger for.
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