A Far Better Thing

Description

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.

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I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse.

The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal servant of the Faery Realm. Now, he has a rare opportunity for revenge against the fae and Charles Darnay, the changeling left in his stead.

It will take magic and cunning–cold iron and Realm silver–to hide his intentions from humans and fae and bring his plans to fruition.

Shuttling between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, generations of violence-begetting-violence lead him to a heartbreaking choice in the shadow of the guillotine.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: H. G. Parry
Published: 06/17/2025
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781250334183
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 1.11″ H x 8.29″ L x 5.52″ W

About the Author
H. G. PARRY is the author of several books including The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, the Shadow Histories duology, and The Magician’s Daughter. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and divides her time between her tiny Wellington flat and a house on the Kapiti Coast where she lives with her sister and a menagerie of small animals.