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The year is 1599. Fang, a grumpy, heartbroken traveller from the Ming Empire, awakes from death to discover he’s not quite human any more. Nor is he a zombie, vampire, werewolf or any of the other supernatural beings who roam the segregated cities of Upper London and its dragon-ruled underground counterpart, Deep London.
He stumbles upon Lazare de Quitte-Beuffe, a people-pleasing popinjay of an actor afflicted with the same strange mysterious curse, which means neither of them can die. Thrown together by immortality, the two strangers set out to reverse the spell, traversing the dangers of Deep London and encountering vampires, ghouls, ogres, poets, púca, magical talking swans and the zombie of Christopher Marlowe, all the while trying to ignore the intense connection between them.
As they are drawn further into the shadowy world of Deep London, they unearth a dangerous plot which they appear to be right in the middle of. Needing to reverse the spell and get on with being dead, the worst thing they could do, right now, would be to fall in love…
Cursed Under London by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781788425032
Imprint: Farrago
'I loved Cursed Under London. Funny, joyous, subversive' --Joanne Harris, author of Broken Light
'A gleeful swashbuckle around a twisted Tudor London underground, with the heart of Nimona and the jokes of Ghosts' --Joel Morris, comedy writer and author of Be Funny or Die
'A spectacular romp through Elizabethan London, with all the wit you'd expect from a writer with comedy talons as sharp as Crouch's. A hugely imaginative read!' --Rose Biggin, author of The Belladonna Invitation