Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Schwab braids the lives of three immortal women across four centuries. Maria, in 16th-century Spain, refuses the small life marriage offers her. Charlotte, in 1820s London, is swept into a dangerous education by an older woman. Alice, a Scottish student newly arrived in 2019 Boston, wakes one morning changed and ravenous, with no memory of how. As their stories converge, the novel traces what each woman does with the endless hunger and freedom that immortality grants, and the cost of refusing every cage the world builds for them. It is a story of love, rage, desire, and the lengths women go to claim their own lives.