Don’t Let The Forest In is coming out in the UK!!

My secret news is out!! Don’t Let The Forest In is coming out in the UK in January 2025.

It has a slightly new look for the UK cover edition and am excited to show it to you!! I’ve been sitting on this news for a while so I’m very pleased to finally be able to spill.

But also can we just take a minute to LOOK AT HIM. The UK cover has a bit more colour, is a bit bl00dier, and has a very fun tagline. Let me know what you think of it!! This is also my first time having US vs UK editions so I’m extremely happy. Andrew and Thomas and their unhinged little fairy tale monsters and obsessive romance also just passed a wild 31,000 adds on Goodreads and that is just so wild to me.

Don’t Let The Forest In is being called a deliciously dark and dangerously addictive, Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education, in a dark academia YA thriller filled with twisted fairy tales and monsters that will keep you up at night. Coming January 2025 in paperback from Hodder Children’s Books UK.

You can also preorder it here on Amazon UK or Blackwells!

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Here they are side-by-side.

Incredible art by Jana Heidersdorf!

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“No one would want a heart like his. But he’d still cut it out and given it away.”
On the first day back at boarding school, Andrew can’t wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales that he writes for Thomas – the boy with hair like autumn leaves.
But Thomas’ parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas won’t talk to Andrew, even though he’s always loved sketching the monstrous creatures from Andrew’s stories.
Desperate to discover the truth, Andrew follows Thomas into the forest and catches him fighting a nightmarish monster – his drawings have come to life.
To ensure no one else dies, the boys must battle the creatures every night. But as their obsession with each other grows stronger, so do the monsters, and Andrew fears the only way to stop them might be to destroy their creator.