![]() ![]() India Holton’s utterly delightful debut is pure joy from start to finish.” ![]() ![]() “The most charming, clever, and laugh-out-loud funny book I’ve read all year-it is impossible to read The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels and not fall in love with its lady pirates, flying houses, and swoon-worthy romance. “The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels is easily the most delightfully bonkers historical fantasy romance of 2021! Featuring lady pirates in flying houses and gentleman assassins with far too many names, I enjoyed every absorbing moment.” A sprightly feminist tale that offers everything from an atmospheric Gothic abbey to secret societies.” “This melds the Victorian wit of Sherlock Holmes with the brash adventuring of Indiana Jones. And somehow in all the melodrama and jokes and hilariously mangled literary references, there are moments of emotion that cut to the quick-the way a profound traumatic experience can overcome you years later.” “Holton is having as much fun as the English language will permit-the prose shifts constantly from silly to sublime and back, sometimes in the course of a single sentence. ![]()
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