Synopsis
‘Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman’ – Independent on Sunday
Set in a mythical feudal land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay.
In his palace...
Details
02 October 2025304 pages
9781035060283Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Across the Nightingale Floor remains quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip PullmanIndependent on Sunday
Across the Nightingale Floor was described to me by the young man in Borders bookshop as a "Japanese 'Harry Potter', only better". In fact, it's a different beast entirely. Much darker, much sharper, much less predictableThe Daily Telegraph
The most compelling novel to have been published this yearThe Times [2002]
Satisfyingly rich in incident yet admirably spare in the tellingThe New York Times Book Review
