Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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.

León, Spain: María, wild and wily, knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers her a dark alternative path, María 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 can 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 women’s fates become tangled like roots.

This is a story about life: how it ends, and how it starts again. * * * 'A rich, lush labyrinth of a book . .

. It had me by the throat from the first page'– Emma Stonex'Nobody can write like V. E.

Schwab'– Jodi Picoult'I absolutely devoured it . . .

It's utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic'– Bridget Collins'Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller . . .

goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail'– The New York Times‘Spanning centuries, this entrancing queer love story follows three women . . .

Lyrical and immersive’– Cosmopolitan V. E. Schwab's Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16/06/2025