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A House With Good Bones

Pages
247
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

Samantha Montgomery returns home to her ancestral North Carolina house — the one that belonged to her grandmother Gran Mae — only to find it filled with unsettling changes. As she digs into old photographs, letters, and local lore about "the underground children," a decades-old family secret begins to surface: someone in the family has been hiding something terrible for generations.

About the author

T
T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about...

Characters

Samantha MontgomeryProtagonist
Edith MontgomerySupporting
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