Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, 5)

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesA 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!Amazon's Best of 2020 So FarThe fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and BonesWhen Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister―whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice―back to their home on the Moors.But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken.Again.The Wayward Children SeriesBook 1: Every Heart a DoorwayBook 2: Down Among the Sticks and BonesBook 3: Beneath the Sugar SkyBook 4: In an Absent DreamBook 5: Come Tumbling Down

Locus

"Come Tumbling Down is more proof of the charismatic power Seanan McGuire has long exhibited in the fantasy field; simply put, no one does it better."

Kirkus Reviews, starred review Praise for Every Heart a Doorway

"Grotesque, haunting, lovely."

NPR

"With Every Heart a Doorway, McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy ― a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space between them."

Charlaine Harris

"Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain."

Cory Doctorow for BoingBoing

"This is a gorgeous story: sometimes mean, sometimes angry, and always exciting."

io9

"So mindblowingly good, it hurts."

Library Journal starred review

"McGuire's lyrical prose makes this novella a rich experience."

V. E. Schwab

“One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read.”

Publishers Weekly

"This gothic charmer is a love letter to anyone who's ever felt out of place."

Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford

"Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning and damaged children."

About the Author

SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!

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