{"product_id":"9780356520322","title":"The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door","description":"Author: H. G. Parry\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780356520322\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'E\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003easily my favourite read of this year . . .  an unputdownable, bittersweet tale'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison Saft, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Far Wilder Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCamford, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the best pieces of literature I have read in far too long . . . Bravo, H. G. Parry. Bravo!' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'By turns wondrous, haunting and mysterious . . . historical fantasy at its finest\" \u003c\/b\u003eOlivia Atwater, author of\u003ci\u003e Half a Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReader reviews:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is the best book I've read so far this year. I loved it so much'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e?????\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eOh this wickedly beautiful book. 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In awe!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e?????\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Could not put it down and did not want it to end!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e?????\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eI thought that I had given up on fae books, but \u003ci\u003eThe Scholar and the Last Faerie Door\u003c\/i\u003e burst from the ether and became one of the best books I read in 2024'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e?????\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEverything I want from a faerie novel! . . . 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