A Long Time Dead Kirsty Greenwood NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER * A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS

Her parents are gone

her proposal planning business is thriving

and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman

with Apollo constantly dropping by unannounced and pushing his unwelcome advances

A Long Time Dead Kirsty Greenwood NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDNAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST ROMANCES OF 2023. Somewhere foggy, 1837 . . . Poppy had always loved the night, so it wasn't too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: