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In a dark, dark house in a dark, dark wood awaits a surprise.

"Nora is a reclusive crime writer, content with the routine of life in her apartment in London. She hasn't seen her friend Clare in years - not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. So she's surprised to receive an invitation to Clare's hen do. Perhaps it's a chance to reconnect with her best friend. But something goes terribly wrong in the eerie glass house deep in the English countryside. Then Nora wakes up with her head bandaged...

"With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors--and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and a way back home."-- "El...

"De uno de nuestros talentos literarios más incesantemente provocativos, una novela de suspenso metafísico inquietante sobre una viuda anciana cuya vida se da un vuelco cuando encuentra una nota críptica en un paseo por el bosque que finalmente la hace cuestionar todo sobre su nuevo hogar. En el paseo diario con su perro por los bosques cercanos, nuestra protagonista se encuentra con una nota, escrita a mano y cuidadosamente clavada en el suelo...

Synopsis: This book ambitiously brings together all Longfellow's poems into a single volume. As well as his justly famous works such as 'Hiawatha', 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' and 'Evangeline', there is much else here to delight the reader, such as his many short poems, translations and verse-dramas.