Mongrels: A Novel Valentine Seasonal -“The Apple Tree”

-“The Apple Tree”

Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo

Hope and Felix are prepared to grin and bear it

and the idea that the smallest step can create ripples we can’t yet see

and striking printed endpapers

Mongrels: A Novel Valentine Seasonal -“The Apple Tree”FINALIST FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE THIS IS HORROR AWARD * HONORABLE MENTION, LOCUS AWARDS * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR. COM AND BOOK RIOT A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming of age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them. He was born an outsider, like the rest of his