Threadneedle

Written by Cari Thomas

Narrated by Bea Holland

The Sunday Times No.4 bestseller Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city, filled with magic.

‘Magic and love. Love and magic. They destroy everything in the end …’

Anna’s Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences.

Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever.

Until she meets Effie and Attis.

They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells.

But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her Aunt was right all along.

Is her magic a gift … or a curse?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: May 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9780008407032

Reviews for Threadneedle

[jen1the1librarian · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Trudged through beginning of book, it finally started to get more interesting when they formed a coven but felt like a reworking of The Craft. There were definitely some interesting twists at the end, but since I felt like I was wallowing through the book to finish it, I don't care to read any sequels.

[Lyricalgothic · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Book could have been trimmed down some but it was a nice listen and I love the plot

[Inge Wertwijn · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This book seems to have been written by a very young person as a coming of age novel. It reminded me of when i was 17.

[sunyidean · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I think I didn't pay quite enough attention to the marketing or maybe this is a result of the UK not separating out ya from adult in SFF genres to the extent that the Americans do, but I didn't realise quite how ya the novel would be. It's modern day witches at high school, set in London, among relatively posh kids. I struggle with magic school books so I'm really not the audience but it was well written and put together with interesting magic. I would not recommend it to my friends who read adult SFF but I might recommend it to the few teens I know who read books of that flavour as it has a lot to offer that age group. In that sense, it is actually refreshing to read ya which feels, for once, targeted at actual ya readers instead of ya written for adults on the sly.

[charlotteburt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A magical world right in the middle of the normal world. Not Harry Potter, no this is much darker and much more real. It is a YA and Anna the protagonist is a 16 year old girl so it should be no surprise that some of the demons that they are battling have more to do with boys and popularity than magic but there are darker problems and not just the bullying, mean girls and gossip of the conventional world.
It is a book of contrasts, between the control and oppression of the Binders, an almost religious organisation to which Anna's aunt and guardian is a senior member; to the hedonistic freedom shared by the fairy godmother figure of Selene. Selene is an old friend of Anna's late mother who moves back to London with her daughter Effie and a teenage boy called Attis and this changes Anna's world.