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.
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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