Eat the Ones You Love

Eat the Ones You Love

“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. “Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked.” ― V. E. Schwab , New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue “A beautiful dark gem of a book.” ―Zoraida Córdova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina “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 “ Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece―inventive, intimate, and scalpel-sharp.” ―Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls “I devoured this book in a matter of days, but it will be snaking through my mind for a long time to come.” ―Adrienne Celt, author of End of the World House “ Eat the Ones You Love is a story that has everything: monsters, malls, and minimum wage. Griffin is a genius of suburban gothic, and like Baby, I’m always hungry for more.” ―Caroline O’Donoghue, bestselling author of The Rachel Incident "It’s been an excellent few years for gothic novels, and Eat the Ones You Love is among the best I’ve read. It’s certainly the most fun. Gorgeous, bewitching, full of heart and secrets and smarts, it kept me up late and turned my dreams strange." --Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love "A smart, meticulously observed, funny, disturbing, and endlessly inventive novel about desire and all that that greedy, destructive, and sometimes lovely word encapsulates. Eat the Ones You Love will consume (sorry, not sorry) you."--Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie " This depraved novel is something truly beautiful to behold. Nothing can prepare you for what lurks within its pages." --Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb “Lush, eerie, and sensual…a stunner.” ― Publishers Weekly , starred review 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.