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Sola en el mundo, Asher Todd viaja a la remota hacienda Morwood como institutriz de los hijos de la peculiar familia que allí habita. Asher sabe poco de niños, pero es experta en botánica, herbología, y quizás algo más que eso…
En poco tiempo logra hacerse indispensable gracias a sus argucias y remedios, pero los espectros rondan los pasillos del caserón y hay criaturas extrañas que merodean en los bosques circundantes.
Asher va destapando poco a poco los secretos y misterios que asedian la casa, que difícilmente pueden rivalizar con los suyos propios.
Galardonada con los premios Aurealis y Australian Shadow a mejor novela en 2022.
En poco tiempo logra hacerse indispensable gracias a sus argucias y remedios, pero los espectros rondan los pasillos del caserón y hay criaturas extrañas que merodean en los bosques circundantes.
Asher va destapando poco a poco los secretos y misterios que asedian la casa, que difícilmente pueden rivalizar con los suyos propios.
Galardonada con los premios Aurealis y Australian Shadow a mejor novela en 2022.
405 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2025
About the author
Angela Slatter
192 books876 followersAngela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards.
Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories.
She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.
Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015.
The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.
Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories.
She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.
Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015.
The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.
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May 25, 2026
Arranqué la novela por pura curiosidad, y terminé obsesionada. Una escritura hermosa, con un tono de novela gótica, sutilmente oscura.
Recomiendo a montones.
Recomiendo a montones.
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