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Amid the falling shells of Flanders Field, a nurse embarks on a haunting quest to find her brother, presumed lost in the trenches. But set amongst eerie and haunting settings, magic and mystery fills the air, and all is not as it seems in the gripping historical Sunday Times Bestselling novel.
January 1918: Laura Iven, a Canadian nurse, returns home from the war, only to receive devastating news her brother Freddie is dead. But something doesn’t quite make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura heads back to Belgium, volunteering at a private hospital. There, she encounters the eerie whispers of ghosts who dance around a mysterious innkeeper who offers soldiers a blissful escape. Could this be Freddie's path - and if so, where is he?
November 1917: Freddie Iven wakes after an explosion to find himself trapped with a wounded German soldier. Against all the odds, they form a bond and claw their way to an escape. But in the chaos of No Man's Land, neither know where to turn to avoid persecution. Amidst the atrocity, they encounter a fiddler with the power to make their hellscape vanish but at what price?
With the power to both warm and break your heart, The Warm Hands of Ghosts is a breathtaking and spellbinding tale of love, survival, and the supernatural.
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'A wonderful clash of fire and ice ... A book you won't want to let go of.' Diana Gabaldon
'A spectacular tour de force ... I love this book so much and want everyone to read it!' Naomi Novik
'Darkly beautiful and deeply humane ... The Warm Hands of Ghosts will stir your heart, and settle into your bones.' Ava Reid
'Visionary, imaginative and brilliantly written.' Anthony Horowitz
‘This exquisite novel took me over like a haunting ... One of the best historical fantasies I've ever read’ Emma Törzs
Katherine Arden, Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024
Genre: Fantasy
January 1918: Laura Iven, a Canadian nurse, returns home from the war, only to receive devastating news her brother Freddie is dead. But something doesn’t quite make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura heads back to Belgium, volunteering at a private hospital. There, she encounters the eerie whispers of ghosts who dance around a mysterious innkeeper who offers soldiers a blissful escape. Could this be Freddie's path - and if so, where is he?
November 1917: Freddie Iven wakes after an explosion to find himself trapped with a wounded German soldier. Against all the odds, they form a bond and claw their way to an escape. But in the chaos of No Man's Land, neither know where to turn to avoid persecution. Amidst the atrocity, they encounter a fiddler with the power to make their hellscape vanish but at what price?
With the power to both warm and break your heart, The Warm Hands of Ghosts is a breathtaking and spellbinding tale of love, survival, and the supernatural.
_________
'A wonderful clash of fire and ice ... A book you won't want to let go of.' Diana Gabaldon
'A spectacular tour de force ... I love this book so much and want everyone to read it!' Naomi Novik
'Darkly beautiful and deeply humane ... The Warm Hands of Ghosts will stir your heart, and settle into your bones.' Ava Reid
'Visionary, imaginative and brilliantly written.' Anthony Horowitz
‘This exquisite novel took me over like a haunting ... One of the best historical fantasies I've ever read’ Emma Törzs
Katherine Arden, Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024
Genre: Fantasy
Praise for this book
"Absolutely incredible - I had chills all through reading it." - Shannon Chakraborty
"The Warm Hands of Ghosts is a miraculously warm fusion of the mud and bloody horror of war with the unquenchable power of love and the bond formed at the limits of human endurance. It's a magical and marvelous book." - Nicola Griffith
"A marvelous novel, visionary, imaginative, and brilliantly written." - Anthony Horowitz
"Katherine Arden isn't writing about World War I, she's writing from World War I - the diction, the madness, the desperation. But the hope, too - and maybe even a devil grinning at us from the trenches." - Stephen Graham Jones
"A spectacular tour de force by one of my favorite authors, so wonderful and deep and haunting that you might well imagine it required a Faustian bargain of its own - I love this book so much and want everyone to read it!" - Naomi Novik
"Arden's haunting novel is at once immersive and timeless, an ode to the enduring power of memory." - Vaishnavi Patel
"Katherine Arden's effortless blend of history and folklore is sure to entrance again with this stunning foray into the twentieth century, where ghosts walk, dreams blunt trauma, and myth becomes real." - Kate Quinn
"Darkly beautiful and deeply humane, this is a story of love that reaches across borders and across oceans, and even penetrates the veil of death. It will stir your heart and settle into your bones." - Ava Reid
"From the brutal trenches of World War I comes a vivid story of grief and love that feels not only timeless, but timely. This exquisite novel took me over like a haunting, and Arden's eerie, exacting prose followed me long after I closed the cover. It's one of the best historical fantasies I've ever read." - Emma Törzs
"A page-turner of the highest order . . . a masterpiece of historical realism seamlessly blended with the supernatural that delivers spine-tingling heroism as well as a searing study of war's cruelties and the necessity of remembrance . . . a haunting, fantastic read!" - Helene Wecker
"The Warm Hands of Ghosts is a miraculously warm fusion of the mud and bloody horror of war with the unquenchable power of love and the bond formed at the limits of human endurance. It's a magical and marvelous book." - Nicola Griffith
"A marvelous novel, visionary, imaginative, and brilliantly written." - Anthony Horowitz
"Katherine Arden isn't writing about World War I, she's writing from World War I - the diction, the madness, the desperation. But the hope, too - and maybe even a devil grinning at us from the trenches." - Stephen Graham Jones
"A spectacular tour de force by one of my favorite authors, so wonderful and deep and haunting that you might well imagine it required a Faustian bargain of its own - I love this book so much and want everyone to read it!" - Naomi Novik
"Arden's haunting novel is at once immersive and timeless, an ode to the enduring power of memory." - Vaishnavi Patel
"Katherine Arden's effortless blend of history and folklore is sure to entrance again with this stunning foray into the twentieth century, where ghosts walk, dreams blunt trauma, and myth becomes real." - Kate Quinn
"Darkly beautiful and deeply humane, this is a story of love that reaches across borders and across oceans, and even penetrates the veil of death. It will stir your heart and settle into your bones." - Ava Reid
"From the brutal trenches of World War I comes a vivid story of grief and love that feels not only timeless, but timely. This exquisite novel took me over like a haunting, and Arden's eerie, exacting prose followed me long after I closed the cover. It's one of the best historical fantasies I've ever read." - Emma Törzs
"A page-turner of the highest order . . . a masterpiece of historical realism seamlessly blended with the supernatural that delivers spine-tingling heroism as well as a searing study of war's cruelties and the necessity of remembrance . . . a haunting, fantastic read!" - Helene Wecker
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