Eat the Ones You Love

Sarah Maria Griffin

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"Do you mind me asking--what kind of help do you need?"

After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and the flowers she works with there are just the thing she needs to cheer up. Or maybe it's Neve, the beautiful shop manager, who is making her days so rosy?

But you have to get your hands dirty if you want your garden to grow--and Neve's secrets are as dark and dangerous as they come. In the back room of the flower shop, a young sentient orchid actually runs the show, and he is hungry . . . and he has a plan for them all.

When the choices are to either bury yourself in the warmth of someone else's fertile soil, or face the cold and disappointing world outside--which would you choose? And what if putting down roots came at a cost far higher than just your freedom?

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay--and working retail at the end of the world.

Book Details

Publisher: Tor Books
Publish Date: Apr 22nd, 2025
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.30in - 1.10in - 0.80lb
EAN: 9781250910691
Categories: • Fantasy - Contemporary• Horror - General• Literary

About the Author

Griffin, Sarah Maria: - Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines.

Praise for this book

"Eat the Ones You Love is a beautiful, dark gem of a book. Sarah Maria Griffin writes with acute attention to the intersection between class and relationships, and the all-consuming effects of possession." --Zoraida Córdova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

"Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece--inventive, intimate, and so incisive on the way class shapes human relationships. Griffin's voice is absolutely singular; scalpel-sharp and deeply lyrical, every word unexpected and yet precise. Simply put, this book redefines the literary horror genre. Fans of Paul Tremblay and T. Kingfisher have found their new obsession." --Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls

"Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise." --Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil

Praise for Sarah Maria Griffin

"This is a writer of such natural vivacity and spark, such eloquence and invention." --Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier

"Sarah's gorgeous language draws you into her frighteningly believable near-future. This story is a dark and fierce thing, but one that also has much to say about hope and human ingenuity." --Joseph Fink, author of Welcome to Night Vale, on Spare and Found Parts

"A beautiful novel woven from magic that seeps into your blood and bones and lingers there...Sarah's gorgeous prose will haunt you." --Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boy on Other Words for Smoke

"A fascinating coming-of-age story...a compelling read." --Charlie Jane Anders, bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky, on Other Words for Smoke

"A unique, feminist coming-of-age novel...Clever, beautifully written and compelling. I loved it." --Marian Keyes on Spare and Found Parts