Honno signs Cold Grace by Meredith Miller

Following the publication of Meredith Miller’s Fall River by Honno in March 2024, we are excited to announce that we have signed Miller’s next book Cold Grace, a tense and compelling historical novel set in New England.

“A woman’s body is a machine specially designed for producing consequences.” Winter is closing in on a valley in northern New England, where a violent history is about to repeat itself. The Allen family farm is nearly empty. Only Eddie, the youngest son, remains, living with his family’s ghosts near the woods he loves. In those woods he meets Jeanne Delaney, a girl he’s known all his life, now turning into a woman. This is not the first time that Eddie’s people have come into contact with Jeanne’s, though. Their families are already tied together by a violent past.

In her latest novel, Miller boldly tackles themes of race and disability, raising questions about national borders and reproductive freedoms, sadly issues still prevalent in our modern day. “For me this is a book about racism and eugenics. It is about the lengths people go to, to preserve the myth of whiteness,” Miller says.

For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, Cold Grace is a dark historical novel defined by its frozen landscape. Both revenge tragedy and coming of age story, it tells of an isolated community haunted by the ghost of its own violence.

“Miller's poetic prose, sensitivity to the natural world and ability to skewer the human condition in all its beauty and ugliness makes this an unforgettable read.”
Rebecca Parfitt - Commissioning Editor, Honno