Release Announcement
The Remembered Street, 2 July: magic is forgetting
The Remembered Street comes out on 2 July. It is the first book of The Underloam, and the one I have carried longest, so I want to say what it is before anything else gets said about it. It is about a girl in a fog-drowned port called Halewick, where there is a street that is not on any map, and she is the only one who remembers walking it. Her name is Edda Mercer. She has spent seventeen years telling herself something is wrong with her. Something is right with her, and it is the most dangerous thing in the world. The engine of the whole series is one sentence: magic is forgetting. What the world forgets thoroughly enough does not vanish. It sinks, whole and breathing, into the Underloam, the drowned country beneath the world. Edda can reach through the floor of the world and pull the buried back up. Nothing comes up for free. That is the wonder, and that is the wound, and I could not give you one without the other. I did not want to. Seven books, one closed arc. This is the door in. It opens on 2 July.