The Witch & The City

<p>The prison-city of Osylum floats in the midst of an endless abyss. The reclusive Lady rules it; distant inscrutable and never seen. Her will is imposed by the Wardens eldritch creatures who tend to the convicts' needs but also ruthlessly purge anyone who tries to escape.</p><p><br></p><p>Osylum's newest inmate the witch Oneirotheria has no memory of who she is where she came from or why she is imprisoned. Instead her mind is a mess of spells and lore and other people's voices. The city mirrors her internal confusion; a jumble of broken buildings covered in hundreds of snippets of graffiti.</p><p><br></p><p>As Oneirotheria re-assembles her own shattered past (aided by a few inmates of dubious intent) she learns she may hold not just the key to escape but the intertwined secrets of the city's origin and a lost love that transcends countless lives.</p><p><br></p><p>For readers of Susanna Clarke's <em>Piranesi </em>and Madeline Miller's <em>Circe</em> <em>The Witch & The City </em>introduces a lyrical and baroque fantasy world where an ocean lurks behind every mirror puppets pull the strings of the living and even the skulls have secrets to tell... if a witch knows how to listen.</p>