The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
Book description
"Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." —New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches
In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets…
With the…
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1 author picked The Last Heir to Blackwood Library as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This modern gothic follows Ivy Radcliffe as she suddenly inherits an estate house in England, during the tail end of World War I.
Throughout this story grief is explored very intimately through Ivy mourning the loss of her brother to the war, but also the way that the communal grief of the war affects individuals and shapes English society and how it functions.
Without giving away too many spoilers, memory places a huge, multilayered role in the story, and of course we see the way that grief and memory are connected, both through the way Ivy remembers her lost brother…
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