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HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS

Erin A. Craig

Get swept away in Erin A. Craig's mesmerizing House of Salt and Sorrows. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with ....

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the las - the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge - and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.

Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who - or what - are they really dancing with?

When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family - before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Get ready to be swept away.

HAUS AUS SALZ UND TRaeNEN
Deutsch von Petra Huber
[HC Festa 04/2021]
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Published 2019-08-01 by Delacorte

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Debuting on #10 of the New York Times Bestseller list. (August 2019)

It's a fairy tale, a young-adult romance (though gothic enough for adult readers) and a whodunit too. Erin Craig works them all together with the modern storyteller's more complex craft. The Grimms provided the blueprint, one might say, and a very good blueprint it is, but after two centuries of dominance by the realistic novel, we need more than the sketch of a fairy tale. We need personalities, we need individuals, we need to understand the heroine's interior life, all engagingly presented in this charming remake. -- The Wall Street Journal

Poland: JK Publishing / Feeria;

“Step inside a fairy tale. - —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval

[...] in a pleasantly shivery combination of glamor, horror, and suspense...the novel's vivid, evocative atmosphere will please fans of the gothic. There are chills aplenty and the mystery element keeps the pages turning; readers will be happy to linger on Salten's rocky, haunted shores. --- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Romania: Corint Books;

An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers. -- Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood

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Russia: Clever Media Group; Turkey: Epsilon;

Czech Republic: Euromedia; Hungary: Konyvmolykepzo;

Chilling and atmospheric. - Laura E. Weymouth, author of The Light Between Worlds

This moody maritime retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses blends elements of suspense and horror for a gothic twist on a familiar tale. A memorably built world populated with a hauntingly doomed family. -- Booklist

1212 Entertainment will be adapting the New York Times bestselling YA novel HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS into a TV series with Joshua Long and Roberto Grande to develop and produce. Read more...

France: Casterman; Germany: Festa Verlag; Italy: Fanucci; Slovakia: Ikar;

An accomplished first novel, equal parts gothic fairy tale and romance...Compulsively readable, with sweet young love and truly creepy horror. -- School Libray Journal