Wilder Girls
Published on 6. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-5290-2126-4 (ISBN)
Description
An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power's chilling and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller' - Guardian
Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don't dare wander past the school's fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . .
'Your new favourite book' - Cosmopolitan
'Wholly original and compelling' - Observer
'A staggering gut punch of a book' - Kirkus
'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller' - Guardian
Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don't dare wander past the school's fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . .
'Your new favourite book' - Cosmopolitan
'Wholly original and compelling' - Observer
'A staggering gut punch of a book' - Kirkus
Reviews / Votes
Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller . . . one of the year's most memorable debut's. * Guardian, The Best Books of 2020 * Your new favourite book. * Cosmopolitan * Finally, Rory Power combines the challenges of dystopian survival with the dynamics of boarding school life in the wholly original and compelling Wilder Girls. -- Fiona Noble * Observer * This thrilling saga . . . is sure to be one of the season's most talked-about books, in any genre. * Entertainment Weekly * Groundbreaking . . . brutal and beautiful, raw and unflinching. -- Emily Suvada, author of <i>This Mortal Coil</i> Part survival thriller, part post-apocalyptic romance, and part ecocritical feminist manifesto, a staggering gut punch of a book. * Kirkus, Starred Review * Power's evocative, haunting, and occasionally gruesome debut will challenge readers to ignore its bewitching presence. * Booklist, Starred Review * Wilder Girls is the bold, imaginative, emotionally wrenching horror novel of my dreams - one that celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph. -- Claire Legrand, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Furyborn</i> Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. I'm convinced we're about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star. -- Jeff VanderMeer, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Annihilation</i> The perfect kind of story for our current era * Hypable * A feminist, LGBT+, sci-fi-horror story with all the tantalizing elements of gore, mystery, war, and love you can ask for. Real, flawed, brave girls against a world gone mad. A shudderingly good read! -- Dawn Kurtagich, author of <i>Teeth in the Mist</i> A very different boarding school tale * i News * A New York Times bestseller, this is a story of survival and the power of female friendships. It's part thriller and part post-apocalyptic romance, celebrating the resilience and strength of girls * Muddy Stilettos, included in a best book for teenagers round-up *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5290-2126-4 (9781529021264)
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Rory Power grew up in New England, where she lives and works as a crime fiction editor and story consultant for TV adaptation. She received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia and thinks fondly of her time there, partially because she learned a lot but mostly because there were a ton of bunnies on campus. Wilder Girls is her debut novel.