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. 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 all odds, these three women's stories 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 '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