The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab is a Sunday Times bestseller and a sweeping, bittersweet fantasy about what it means to be remembered.

France, 1714. Desperate to escape a life she never chose, a young woman named Addie makes a bargain in the dark with a mysterious stranger. She will live forever, but there is a cruel price: everyone she meets will forget her the moment she leaves their sight.

For three centuries Addie drifts through history, slipping in and out of people's lives. She becomes an unseen muse to painters and musicians, a friend and lover who vanishes with the morning light, always searching for some small way to leave a trace of herself on the world. Then one day, in a little bookshop in Manhattan, she meets Henry, a young man who, impossibly, remembers her name.

As their lives begin to intertwine, Addie's story is suddenly starting over. But the devil she bargained with never plays fair, and both of them must face the true cost of the deals they have made.

Spanning continents and centuries, art and heartbreak, this lyrical novel was praised by Neil Gaiman and has become a modern favourite among book lovers. A beautiful pick for readers of romantic fantasy, historical fiction and stories about art, memory and immortality.

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