Dust jacket illustration by Lauren Saint-Onge.
We’re pleased to announce Demon Daughter, the latest novella-length adventure featuring Lois McMaster Bujold’s beloved characters, Penric and Desdemona.
Note: As with our most recent Bujold titles, we do not expect to make Demon Daughter available to large online retailers.
About the Book:
A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona into conflict—with each other. It will take all of Penric’s wits, his wife Nikys’s wisdom, and the hand of the fifth god’s strangest saint to untangle the threads of their future.
Limited: 1250 signed numbered hardcover copies
From Publishers Weekly:
“Bujold’s 13th Penric and Desdemona fantasy (after Penric’s Labors) takes the series in a more introspective direction as, for the first time, she places her two leads in conflict with each other… Seeing these two at cross-purposes puts a fresh twist on Bujold’s formula, allowing her to reveal new sides to each character. This works well as a quiet interlude between the action of previous volumes and the adventures that await.”
From Locus:
“Bujold has always had a gift for a vivid turn of phrase, and it is a pleasure to watch an experienced master at their craft. This is a measured, thoughtful meditation on parenthood: on the agency of children and of parents, and what we owe them; on what it means to be a good parent, and how that might look different under different circumstances. Those of us with children may recognise some of our own dilemmas, cast in fantastical form… It is an excellent novella, in an excellent series. I recommend it.”
- artists_list:
- Saint-Onge, Lauren
- authors_list:
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- binding:
- Hardcover
- book_case:
- None
- book_edition:
- Limited
- book_length:
- 224 pages
- book_type:
- Novella
- country_of_manufacture:
- United States
- isbn:
- 978-1-64524-219-2
- is_subpress:
- Yes
