Somewhere Beyond the Sea

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.

*Winner of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy*

Arthur Parnassus has built a good life on the ashes of a bad one. He’s headmaster at an orphanage for magical children, on a peculiar island, assisted by love-of-his-life Linus Baker. And together, they’ll do anything to protect their extraordinary and powerful charges.

However, when Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself fighting for those under his care. It’s also a fight for the better future that all magical people deserve. Then when a new magical child joins their island home, Arthur knows they’ve reached breaking point. The child finds power in calling himself a monster, a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children. Challenged from within and without, their volatile family might grow stronger. Or everything Arthur loves could fall apart.

TJ Klune's Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the No. 1 New York Times-bestselling sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.

Readers love Somewhere Beyond the Sea:

‘If I could give this book a million stars I would’

‘This book is going to be so healing for a lot of people’

‘It is warm, it is sad, it is furious, human, but above all that it is bright and warm’

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Praise for TJ Klune:

‘I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect’ - V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

‘It will renew your faith in humanity’ - Terry Brooks, author of the Shannara series

‘Will sweep you away’ - The New York Times

^{Somewhere Beyond the Sea was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller w/c 16 September 2024}