The Bone Garden

A spooky and adventurous debut fantasy novel about a girl made of dust and bone and imagination who seeks the truth about the magic that brought her to life. ΓÇ£Remember,my dearyou do not really and truly exist.ΓÇ¥ Irr├⌐elle fears sheΓÇÖs not quite real. Only the finest magical thread tethers her to lifeΓÇöand to Miss Vesper. But for all her efforts to please her cruel creatorthe thread is unraveling. Irr├⌐elle is forgetful as she gathers bone dust. She is slow returning from the dark passages beneath the cemetery. Worst of allshe is unmindful of her crooked bones. When Irr├⌐elle makes one finalunforgivable mistake by destroying a frightful creature just brought to lifeMiss Vesper threatens to imagine her away once and for all. Defying her creator for the very first timeIrr├⌐elle flees to the underside of the graveyard and embarks on an adventure to unearth the mysterious magic that breathes bones to lifeeven if it means she will return to dust and be no more. With echoes of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Bookdebut author Heather Kassner crafts a gorgeously written story humming with magicmysteryand dark imaginings.