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Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

John Wiswell

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Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy romance

Beauty and the Beast meets The Shape of Water by the Nebula-award winning author of 'Open House on Haunted Hill'

**Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel**
**Winner: Locus Award for Best First Novel**
**Shortlisted for: Hugo Award for Best Novel**

'Stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching' VERONICA ROTH, bestselling author of WHEN AMONG CROWS

Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she's fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter - one who is perfectly content to stay as an amorphous lump in her swamp unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Then, she meets warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human like her.

But just as Shesheshen is about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she's hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn't curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily's family thinks she did - while surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to build a life with the woman she loves.

A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine - and re-examine - the meaning of legacy, family and love.

Readers love Someone You Can Build A Nest In
'I adored everything about it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

'Charmingly gruesome and unique' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

'This book is going to live rent free in my head for a long time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

'A brilliant, monstrous tale' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

'One of the finest novels I've read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

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Praise for Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

  • A beautiful monster story with a heart, Wiswell treats his outcasts as heroes. He is an author the world desperately needs - J.R. Dawson, author of The First Bright Thing

  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In is charming, horrifying, sweet, and funny - everything I could have wanted from John Wiswell's debut novel and more! With the perfect blend of humor and darkness, it's a wholly fresh take on a monster story - A.C. Wise, author of Hooked

  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In is the future of fantasy: a fairy tale with boundaries, an imaginative world created in the shape of collective values rather than the boring old id, a portal to a place you've really never seen before instead of just a princess in a different outfit. This novel is going to change the entire genre - Meg Elison, Hugo and Locus award-winning author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

  • Horror blends with heart and whimsy in Wiswell's trope-twisting debut. It's monstrously fun! - Beth Cato, author of A Thousand Recipes For Revenge

  • Quirky, heartfelt, funny, and absolutely brimming with gore, just my sort of book! - Marianne Gordon, author of The Gilded Crown

  • The coziest, most unexpectedly wholesome love story about a monster who devours humans and wears their bones that I've ever read! - Naomi Kritzer, Hugo Award-winning author of Catfishing on CatNet

  • 'Oozing with - among other things - Wiswell's inimitable charm and tenderness, this is a monstrous love story like nothing I've ever read before' - Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising

  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In is sweetly furious, darkly funny, and gruesomely wholesome. It's a love story for the unloved, a happily-ever-after with a higher-than-average body count. I just adored it - Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of Starling House

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