Bitterthorn, by Kat Dunn (softback, english edition)

🇬🇧 This book is in English

"Kat Dunn has spun a love story both intimate and epic." — Samantha Shannon

BITTERTHORN

by Kat Dunn

Carnegie Medal Nominated • Nero Book Award Shortlisted • Polari Prize Longlisted

A darkly seductive sapphic Gothic romance inspired by Beauty and the Beast.
She offered herself to the Witch. She had no idea what awaited her.

THE STORY THAT WILL CONSUME YOU

In the town of Blumwald, an ancient curse casts its shadow over everything. Deep in the wild wood, in a sinister castle, lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion — and that companion is never seen again.

Now that time is drawing near once more.

Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald. So when the Witch demands her next companion, Mina does the unthinkable.

She offers herself.

Stranded with her darkly alluring captor, Mina begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to the companions who came before her. A terrifying secret lies at the heart of the castle — one that could save her life.

Or end it.

The curse is older than the town remembers.
The Witch is not what she seems.
And Mina is falling in ways she never expected.

WHY BOOKTOK CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS

• Sapphic Gothic romance — A darkly seductive WLW love story unlike anything else in the genre
• Beauty and the Beast reimagined — Familiar fairytale bones, utterly transformed
• Award-nominated — Carnegie Medal, Nero Book Award & Polari Prize recognition
• Samantha Shannon approved — "A love story both intimate and epic"
• Gothic atmosphere — A cursed town, a sinister castle, a wild wood, and a Witch who is more than she appears
• Mystery & longing — "The agony and ecstasy of longing and desire" — Katherine Webber
• TikTok sensation — One of BookTok's most beloved sapphic Gothic reads

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE:

Sapphic Gothic romance • Beauty and the Beast retellings • Dark fairytales • WLW fantasy • Gothic atmosphere • Fans of Samantha Shannon, Katherine Webber & Holly Black

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

"Kat Dunn has spun a love story both intimate and epic." — Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"A deliciously dark fairy tale full of the agony and ecstasy of longing and desire." — Katherine Webber, author of Twin Crowns

"The sapphic Gothic romance I didn't know I needed. Atmospheric, tender, and utterly haunting."

🖤 A standalone sapphic Gothic romance — complete and deeply satisfying.

A darkly seductive Gothic fairytale of curses, captivity, and a love that grows in the most dangerous of places — between a girl with nothing left to lose and a Witch with everything to hide.

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