Children - Melissa Albert

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Guinevere Sharpe has spent years telling the world a story about her family: a blissful, bohemian childhood in a Vermont barnhouse, surrounded by creativity, laughter, and the larger-than-life presence of her mother, Edith Sharpe, bestselling author of the beloved Ninth City series.As Guin prepares to promote her memoir about life in the Sharpe family, that carefully curated narrative begins to unravel. Her brother Ennis, now a notorious artist with a troubled past, announces a new installation titled Mother—his first exhibition since a disastrous show a year earlier. At the same time, a series of unsettling events forces Guin to confront the possibility that the truth about her childhood is far darker than she has ever admitted.With her parents long dead after a devastating fire and her relationship with Ennis fractured beyond repair, Guin fears that the secrets buried within her family's past are about to come to light.Told through alternating timelines between 1990s Vermont and present-day New York, The Children is a gripping tale of family secrets, artistic obsession, and long-held resentments. Blending mystery with a haunting, fairy-tale atmosphere, it explores whether the ghosts of a childhood sacrificed to a parent's artistic vision can ever truly be laid to rest.