The epic conclusion to the highly acclaimed and globally bestselling Whisperwicks series.

Return to Wreathenwold for impossible magic, spectacular adventure and a mind-blowing finale. For fans of the spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell and the page-turning kid appeal of SKANDAR.

The magus Manfred Tarr is on the hunt for a key a key that has been lost for centuries and which has the power to unleash a terrible darkness on the world.

To save Wreathenwold from a dreadful fate and armed only with his magic, his courage and his best friends Elizabella, Mea and Silas, Benjamiah must set out on another impossible quest to find the Three Sisters.

This dangerous journey will take them deep into the heart of the Weird Wood home to ragwitches, root folk and half bears and into a fierce battle with far-reaching consequences. Can Benjamiah conquer the darkness and save Wreathenwold one final time?

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It's a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

The internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Tom Lake returns with a moving, life-affirming novel that reminds us of the power of connection to defy time.

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'Generous-hearted, clever and poignantly revealing ... Spend a day on the couch in its warm, riveting company and you won’t regret it' The Times

'A quietly compelling story about the power of familial love to transcend time and blood' Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of 2026
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Of all people Daphne could imagine running into at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, low down on that list is Eddie, the beloved former stepfather she has not seen since she was a child.

But with this unexpected reunion the years seem to fall away, and a second chance to know one another appears – a chance to turn over the past and, just maybe, to face the future together.

From a master of storytelling, Whistler is a luminous novel about the endurance of love, the small moments that can define a life, and how the feeling of being known by another person – even so briefly – might change everything.
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'Whistler is top-shelf comfort food, the literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream' Guardian, Book of the Day

'Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer