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Unspeakable Things

A Novel

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By Elizabeth Hand

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Oct 13, 2026
Page Count
336 pages
ISBN-13
9780316579070

Price

$14.99

Price

$19.99 CAD

A chance meeting between two lonely young women on a windswept English moor awakens an all-consuming passion that leads both into a web of increasingly deadly secrets in this seductive historical thriller and love letter to the Gothic classics—with a fresh spin that could only come from the award-winning author of A Haunting on the Hill.
 
It's the 1920s and the English countryside is quiet—which suits Olivia and Tamsin, two young women happy to be overlooked by society. Their relationship is complicated: unruly, working-class Tamsin was brought to Kerrith Manor to be tutored at Olivia's side, but the two quickly have found something more than friendship—a bone-deep recognition that ignites an endless passion.
 
But an unexpected visitor and an unexplained death soon disrupt their idyll, sending both women on the run. They find harbor at Ledges, the dazzling estate of ruthlessly wealthy and endlessly mysterious Rex de Voil. At Ledges, a favorite hang-out for the wealthy, bohemian “bright young things” eager to cut loose far from London’s prying eyes, Olivia and Tamsin at last experience the heady power of true freedom…and soon, its deadly cost.

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Elizabeth Hand

About the Author

Elizabeth Hand is the author of A Haunting on the Hill, the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,The Washington Post, and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as Hokuloa Road, named a Notable Book of 2022 by the New York Times, and more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards, and she’s written for publications including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and more. She divides her time between Maine and London.

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