Guinevere Sharpe 有兩個截然不同的童年。一個真實存在於 Vermont 偏僻農舍旁的森林，她和哥哥 Ennis 幾乎無人照料，在荒野裡長大；另一個則存在於母親 Edith Sharpe 暢銷全球的奇幻系列 Ninth City 中，兄妹倆被寫進故事，成為無數讀者熟悉的角色。隨著母親聲名大噪，現實生活卻逐漸失控，直到一場大火奪走 Edith 的生命，也讓系列永遠停在未完成的篇章。
二十年後，兄妹早已疏遠，Ennis 突然宣布推出名為 Mother 的藝術展，Guinevere 埋藏多年的記憶也開始浮現。那場火災究竟發生了什麼？母親筆下充滿魔法的世界，又隱藏著什麼祕密？The Children 將家庭創傷、童年記憶與虛構世界交織成帶有魔幻氣息的哥德懸疑小說。Stephen King 盛讚本書文字「灑滿魔法」，並認為令人想起 Ray Bradbury 最出色的作品。
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“Enchantingly sinister. . . a Gothic thriller, with a frisson of magic.” —Jennifer Harlan, The New York Times Book Review
“An extraordinary book. It’s a page-turner, full of mystery, but that’s the least of it. The language is dusted with magic. The Children reminded me of Ray Bradbury at his best.” —Stephen King
The haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, must contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic.
Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods.
In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother’s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they’ve made their playland. As Edith Sharpe’s books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame—until the night it all goes up in flames, leaving Edith’s series unfinished and her children the sole survivors.
Now an adult coasting on her mother's name, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother, an artist who has until now spurned his family's legacy, announces an upcoming installation titled, simply, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show, unsettling recollections from Guinevere’s childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack, forcing her to confront the questions she's spent the last twenty years running from: What really happened the night of the fire? And what dark history lies behind their mother’s fantasy world?
The Children is wise to the mythic weight childhood memories gather over time, and the way our most beloved stories grow up with us. It's for anyone who's ever revisited an old favorite and found its pages cast in a darker light, the line separating magic from reality blurring as we discover the books that once comforted us carry shadows of their own.
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