Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light is a delightful and heart-warming second instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling Emily Wilde series, following Emily and Wendell Bambleby on an adventure to the Austrian Alps to find a door back to Bambleby's realm and free him from his family's dark plans. With new friendships to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart. The book has received praise for its darkly gorgeous fantasy, charming academic fairy tale, and vivid worldbuilding.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Freya Marske, author of "A Marvellous Light," presents the second installment of the Sunday Times bestselling Emily Wilde series, a delightful and heart-warming tale. Emily Wilde, a genius scholar of faerie folklore, has cataloged many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia alongside her infuriatingly charming fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby. However, Bambleby is more than just a brilliant and handsome scholar; he is an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, seeking a door back to his realm. By chance, Emily's new project, a map of the realms of faerie, takes them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby's realm and the key to freeing him from his family's dark plans. However, with new friendships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart.

Freya Marske's "A Marvellous Light" is a delightful and heart-warming tale

Emily Wilde, a genius scholar of faerie folklore, has cataloged many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia

Wendell Bambleby, her fellow scholar, is an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother

Emily's new project, a map of the realms of faerie, takes them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps

Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby's realm and the key to freeing him from his family's dark plans

However, with new friendships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart

Praise for the series: "A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic"

A thoroughly charming academic fairy tale, complete with footnotes and a low-key grumpy romance

Enchanting in every sense of the word. . .

This book is real magic

H. G. Parry, author of "The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep"

A book so vividly, endlessly enchanting, so crisply assured, so rich and complete and wise and far-reaching in its worldbuilding that you'll walk away half ensor

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 197 x 126 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780356519180