It begins innocuously enough, with her dress slowly unmaking itself over the course of an evening at the ball of the season, a scandal she only narrowly manages to escape. The synopsis reads: “It is the year 1814 and Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry into the highest society of Bath hindered by an irritating curse. Mortal Follies is Hall’s first foray into "romantasy", the publisher says, “combining his beloved mastery of queer romance and British Regency history with an irresistibly puckish, folkloric fantasy world that roots his cast of characters in a 19th-century landscape teeming with woodland gods, witches, pixies, dryads, druids and hobgoblins.” Mortal Follies will match the US publication in hardback, e-book and audiobook on 6th June 2023, followed by a spin-off standalone set in the same world in 2024. Gollancz has signed Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall, described as a “sapphic Regency love letter”.Įditorial director Bethan Morgan acquired UK and Commonwealth print, digital and audio rights, excluding Canada, in a two-book deal from Rachel Kind at Penguin Random House.
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