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The children : a novel / Melissa Albert.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.L33448 C48 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albert, Melissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Children--Fiction.
- Children.
- Child abuse--Fiction.
- Child abuse.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Memory--Fiction.
- Memory.
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Vermont.
- Genre:
- Horror fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of her family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother's world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother's readers imagine: She and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they've made their playland. As Edith Sharpe's books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame -- until the night it all goes up in flames, leaving Edith's series unfinished and her children the sole survivors. Now an adult coasting on her mother's name, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother, an artist who has until now spurned his family's legacy, announces an upcoming installation titled, simply, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show, unsettling recollections from Guinevere's childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack, forcing her to confront the questions she's spent the past twenty years running from: What really happened the night of the fire? And what dark history lies behind their mother's fantasy world?"--Book jacket flap.
- Notes:
- "Read with Jenna"--Cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version Albert, Melissa Children
- ISBN:
- 9780063487437
- 0063487438
- OCLC:
- 1535296070
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