Devon Fairweather is a book eater – a secret race that literally consumes the written word – and has a privileged but strictly controlled life. This dark and at times disturbing debut novel is an exploration of the depths that a mother will go to in order to protect her son.A truly stunning debut novel! ―Hallie Smith from Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina Between the morally grey characters, English moor setting, and enviable prose, Dean has written a modern fairy tale for the ages, where the girl saves herself and monsters are not the ones you would expect. This has definitely become one of the books that I wish I had written! Sunyi Dean manages to perfectly capture the feeling of wanting to devour a good book, in all of its fantastical glory.What booksellers are saying about The Book Eaters

Above all, it is a story about family love in the midst of ruination: how we define it and defend it, how we find it and fight for it.” –Sunyi Dean, Letter to readers The Book Eaters is both a love letter to fairy tales, and a critical examination of their flaws. Out of personal apocalypse and a total collapse of hope, good things eventually came about-for me, and for Devon. (Though hope springs eternal, as they say.) But I did grow up reading fairy tales and believing in false happy endings, as she did, and my life has been irrevocably altered by parenting, single or otherwise, as hers was. “ I’ve never (yet!) set fire to a large Scottish mansion as Devon does, nor numbered my body count in the dozens as Devon has.

The book eaters