Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: A Dark, Defiant Genre-defying Tale from V. E. Schwab

The Instant Number One Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller
A twisting tale of power, immortality and the terrifying price of freedom.

Three women share one desire.
To break the rules men use to bind them.

1532. Santo Domingo: María is wild and wily, and knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers a dark alternate path, Maria 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 could 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 reason, these three women’s stories become tangled like roots. This is a story about life. How it ends, and how it starts again.

'Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab'
– Jodi Picoult

'A rich, lush labyrinth of a book . . . it had me by the throat from the first page'
– Emma Stonex

'I absolutely devoured it . . . It's utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic'
– Bridget Collins

'Adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war - dazzling'
– Naomi Novik

‘This entrancing queer love story follows three women . . . Lyrical and immersive’
– Cosmopolitan Magazine