Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man-one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak.” - BookRiot “Intense and amazing! It’s like Jonathan Strange and Mr. By the time the book reached that point of no return, I was so invested that I would have followed Jane into the very depths of hell.” -NPR.org "A jewel box of a Gothic novel." - New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021įrom the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror- The Death of Jane Lawrence. ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
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