V.E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil kept me company through the final mad days of work leading up to Christmas - a gorgeous distraction from the glum repetitiveness of that last week.

Three women, teeth bared. Their interweaving stories leading from 16th century Spain, via the final dying days of Georgian London, across the sea to Boston in 2019.

Bury Our Bones plays with themes of monstrosity, victimhood, lesbian identity, appetite, vampire mythology, shifting power. It’s a genuinely pleasurable read, with delectable, indulgent details, and a cracking plot which winds before twisting back on itself.