The Gifts 9780593084120

The Gifts 9780593084120October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grip of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . . A gripping and ambitious book told through five different perspectives

and that made her desperate to leave

He ran under the cover of night

his mind elsewhere and not on the road

1 New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer

He was dragged from the sea

Whether on the roads of South London or in the mysterious Upper World

What begins as resentment gradually transforms into something deeper as Feyre uncovers the secrets of the faerie courts and the dark forces threatening their world

Then he breathes

daughter of Pharaoh

Tom meets beautiful and unhappily married Diana Southcott

But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway

From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of north-west Russia