Understandably, the then 23-year-old seized any opportunity for a change of scenery. Schwab says, “You could literally hear his footsteps moving through the halls and down the stairs a few times a day.”
Her landlord was a former prison warden who also owned a neighboring house that was “benignly haunted” by a man who had lived there for 40 years.
Schwab relocated from Nashville to Liverpool, England, where she paid 200 pounds per month to live in an unheated garden shed furnished with a single bed and a metal bar for hanging clothes. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.īut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.SHED DREAD Ten years ago, at the suggestion of a friend who is no longer a friend, the fantasy author V.E. A Story You Will Never Forget.įrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.Ī Life No One Will Remember. In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah MagazineīOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST- Book of The Month ClubĪ "Best Of" Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *
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