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A House Made Open

Elinor Vale · An upmarket plague-year novel of maternal grief

€4.40

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A grieving plasterer joins seven quarantined houses into one secret refuge, only to learn that every opening exacts a price.

Stratford, 1593. Kristen Hicks, a plasterer mourning the boy she lost when she broke into a plague-sealed wall, puts the very skill that undid her to a new purpose. By cutting discreet links between seven neighbouring homes under quarantine, she fashions a refuge, and every breach redraws the power within its rooms. Escape will demand the hardest opening of all: the destruction of Kristen’s own home, including the chamber she has kept for her dead child.

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Author
Elinor Vale
Length
70,382 words
Estimated reading time
4 hours, 42 minutes
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Book language
English
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