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    King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

    Joe Hill

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    SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...

    ***A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK***'A tour de force...huge, sprawling - and absolutely fantastic' THE GUARDIAN'Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster' ALAN MOORE

    'A soaring epic' PAUL TREMBLAY

    'Exhilarating and haunting...perfection from start to finish' DAILY EXPRESS

    'A commanding, captivating read' FINANCIAL TIMES

    'Epic...a rich response to the horrors and hopes of living today' DAILY MAIL

    Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.

    But his idyll - and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library.

    Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Allison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and Donovan McBride; and brainy, bold Gwen. Together they dream up an impossible, fantastical scheme that they scarcely imagine will work: to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to kill those tormenting Arthur.

    But the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain - they soon learn they must choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year or one of them will become his next victim. Unleashing consequences they can neither predict nor control, this promise will, over the course of four decades, shape and endanger their lives in ways they could never expect.

    'A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon's' RUTH WARE

    'A wild, genre-defying journey, packed with all sorts of unexpected twists' DAILY MIRROR

    'A glorious, wild ride' NEW YORK TIMES'Epic! Hill's best and most ambitious work to date' LINWOOD BARCLAY

    'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAY

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    Praise for King Sorrow

    • PRAISE FOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER JOE HILL - .With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new centuryKing Sorrow riddles and refracts the cultural and historical horrors of our last forty years through the eyes of a badass dragon and a group of close friends who know one another too well. It's a soaring epic and painfully intimate. It's humane and hideous. You won't be able to stop burning through the pages.A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon's, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured itA monster of a book, as gripping and wickedly insidious as the title character. Not a page is wasted along its scaly length, from human villainy to diabolical plots, government folly to the desperate search for redemption. A vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger.Epic! KING SORROW is Hill's best and most ambitious work to date. Those Game of Thrones dragons are mere geckos next to Hill's monster.Original and gripping, a page-turner.Clever, gripping and packs a hell of a punch

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    Joe Hill is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and television, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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