Join us as cosy fantasy icon TJ Klune heads to Edinburgh to discuss the no. 1 bestselling sequel to _The House in the Cerulean Sea;_ _SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA._
_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.
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_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._
ABOUT TJ KLUNE
TJ Klune is the _New York Times_ and _USA Today_ bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of _The House in the Cerulean Sea_, _Under the Whispering Door_, _In the Lives of Puppets_, _Somewhere Beyond the Sea_, the Green Creek series for adults, the Extraordinaries series for teens and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important - now more than ever - to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.