The title of the upcoming Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children sequel has recently been announced, along with an excerpt from the highly-anticipated novel.
The sequel to the young adult thriller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, will be titled Hollow City according to a recent announcement from Entertainment Weekly.
According to the website, Hollow City will reunite readers with the narrator Jacob (and the collection of “peculiar children” whom he now calls friends) on the fateful night in 1940 where Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children left off. Fleeing from the wreckage of the Home, still in danger from the forces of war and supernatural terrors, Jacob and his friends escape to London – but it may not be safety they find in the capital.
And the elements of visual “peculiarity” that attracted so many readers to the first book will also play a role in the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children sequel. The story of Hollow City will be wound around a collection of unnerving and, well, peculiar old photographs included in the novel.
Along with the title, EW also revealed an sneak peek of several pages from Hollow City. “We rode out through the harbor,” the excerpt begins, “Past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past silent juries of seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagine; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
The Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children sequel Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs will be released on Jan. 14 of next year.