Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil

By (author) Schwab V. E.
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An unforgettable, genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger to sink your teeth into. The instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from V. E. Schwab.
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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. Santo Domingo: María is wild and wily, and knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers a dark alternate path, Maria 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 could 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 three women’s stories 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

‘Spanning centuries, this entrancing queer love story follows three women . . . Lyrical and immersive’
– Cosmopolitan Magazine

''Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab''
– Jodi Picoult

''I absolutely devoured it . . . It''s utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic''
– Bridget Collins

''A dark, irresistible saga that asks what it means to be human – to live, to love and above all, to hunger''
– Peng Shepherd





_{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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Schwab at her finest. She’s gifted us a dark, irresistible saga that asks what it means to be human – to live, to love and above all, to hunger
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Perfectly suspended between darkness and light . . . unforgettable
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Sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure . . . you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store
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Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab . . . an unmissable addition to your To Be Read pile
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Compulsively readable . . . surprises in a few new ways, each of them a delight - Locus on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Lush, gorgeous prose and a gripping take on the vampire that pays homage to the greats while doing something deliciously new - Lex Croucher on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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The kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime . . . a defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate and even death itself – and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love
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Schwab’s page turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one’s mark on the world
Biographical note:
Victoria ‘V. E.’ Schwab is the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the international sensation The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the acclaimed Shades of Magic universe, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts trilogy, Gallant and The Fragile Threads of Power. When not haunting Paris