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The Faraway Inn

By Sarah Beth Durst
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When sixteen-year-old Calisa arrives at her great-aunt's bed-and-breakfast for the summer, she's shocked to find it run down rather than cosy. Grumpy and eccentric, Auntie Zee is determined to keep anyone from messing with her beloved inn... even though she clearly needs the help. To convince... Read More
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When sixteen-year-old Calisa arrives at her great-aunt's bed-and-breakfast for the summer, she's shocked to find it run down rather than cosy. Grumpy and eccentric, Auntie Zee is determined to keep anyone from messing with her beloved inn... even though she clearly needs the help.

To convince her great-aunt to keep her around, Calisa sets to work fixing up the inn, enlisting extra help from the groundskeeper's (handsome) son. But the longer she stays, the surer she is that there's something strange about the B and B—and its residents. Something almost... otherworldly.

The inn is hiding a magical secret—but secrets are like doors. Once Calisa opens this one, she won't be able to go back...

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ISBN: 9781037406300

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 384

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About the Author

Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of more than twenty books for kids, teens, and adults, including The Faraway Inn, The Spellshop, Spark, Drink Slay Love , and The Queens of Renthia series. She won an American Library Association Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Nebula Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Stony Brook, New York with her husband, her children and her ill-mannered cat. Visit her at sarahbethdurst.com.

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