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From the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and A Darker Shade of Magic comes a stand-alone novel where The Secret Garden meets Stardust.

Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, her father by degrees and her voice was a thing she never had to start with.

She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she’s never met, her father’s older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don’t go out after dusk and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate’s western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood.

©2022 Victoria Schwab (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Dark Fantasy Fantasy Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Paranormal Magic Heartfelt Scary Exciting

Critic reviews

"A haunting and beautifully tilled garden of darkness, Gallant unearths the shadows - webs of family history, the price of deadly bargains, and the secrets we guard - a triumphant tale that can’t be missed." (Dhonielle Clayton, best-selling author)
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Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so wonderfully crafted, so beautifully written, that the story leaps out, grabs the listener, and doesn’t let go until the final sentence… and even beyond. Gallant is one of those rare books.

Part mystery, part horror, part coming-of-age story, Schwab blends these genre conventions masterfully to create something unique, riveting and truly unputdownable. This is YA writing at its very best.

I shall be recommending this book to anyone and everyone for years to come.

The perfect novel

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I enjoyed this book but read it after reading "The Invisible Lives of Addie LaRue". Unfortunately I didn't find the storyline or characters as interesting.

enjoyable read.

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This is the 3rd book I have read by Victoria Schwab and I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to Gallant.

Though a short quick read/listen Schwab has again written a beautiful yet hauntingly sad book. A story of family secrets, finding one's self and the inevitability of death.

Schwab has a way of making you think deeply about life.

And as the dedication in the book says

'To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own.'

Another 5 🌟 read this year! 🖤

Gothic, Dark but so, so, so beautiful! 🖤

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I love this book! It has everything you could want, a main character who you love and cheer for throughout, so many twist and turns…just when you think you have it figured out turns out you don’t. The story is beautiful written and it was voiced by such a captive voice actor. I really loved it.

Wow! What a story! A must read/listen!!!

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I know that some people didn’t quite enjoy the story as much because it’s YA and thus not as normally complex as Schwab’s more adult writings. And the story is definitely simpler and the characters less complex.
BUT, I will say, I loved this book! And I think listening to the audiobook helped in that. The performance was brilliant: Rhind-Tutt has the perfect tone for it and I think that’s the capturing element that others might’ve missed by reading it without the audiobook. It made it better and I really enjoyed listening to it!

The audiobook makes this book!

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