Starling House by Alix E. Harrow – No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. The
whole town, however, is united in its opinion of the ill-fated mansion, and its last solitary heir!
Both can go to hell!
Tales of bad luck, evil omens and vicious monsters have been passed from generation to generation.
The mansion and its surrounds are avoided like the plague!
Over the years the house has been passed down, generation to generation, and all are strange, aloof
men, who are usually left well alone!
Opal, however, needs a job and one that will, hopefully, get her brother out of Eden! Therefore, when an
opportunity to work at Starling House arises, and she decides to take it!
Opal soon realises that Starling House is unearthly and full of peculiar secrets, as is Arthur, its heir. It
does, however, also feel weirdly and perilously like the home she has never had!
She soon becomes fascinated by the strange and horrific wonders that lie interred beneath it.
Alarming forces begin to converge on Eden, and Opal soon realises that if she wants to call it home,
she’ll need to battle for it. It may involve revealing her family’s dreadful past, however, to attain a
brighter future. She is even prepared to go deep, deep down beneath Starling House to,
hopefully, make her way back to the light!
As she explains in her foreword to readers, Alix has put her heart and soul into this brilliant Gothic novel.
The narrative is about everything she loves, and those things that she hates. That love and hate is
passed on to the reader, revealing a different perspective from what we may have regarding another
person’s life.
Starling House is an unmissable must-read for the year.
ISBN: 9781529061130
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Starling House is available in hardback, paperback and e-book
About Alix E. Harrow
Alix E. Harrow is an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in
Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. Her short fiction has been nominated for the
Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her full-length novels include The Ten Thousand Doors of January and
The Once and Future Witches.