From the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive.
‘A provocative gobsmacker of a novel’ Joseph O’Connor
‘A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse’ Guardian
Orpen has always been an outsider in Phoenix City – the only outsider admitted to the ranks of the banshees. As one of them, she protects the city from the skrake, the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the country outside the city walls.
Unrest is building in the city – a deadly sickness costs ever more lives, while the fighting women are increasingly wearing of enforcing the Management’s patriarchal rule.
Rumour has it that banshees have started seeking their own justice in the city. Orpen must decide - can she help to save the society that she found, or must they try to build a new one?
‘A provocative gobsmacker of a novel’ Joseph O’Connor
‘A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse’ Guardian
Orpen has always been an outsider in Phoenix City – the only outsider admitted to the ranks of the banshees. As one of them, she protects the city from the skrake, the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the country outside the city walls.
Unrest is building in the city – a deadly sickness costs ever more lives, while the fighting women are increasingly wearing of enforcing the Management’s patriarchal rule.
Rumour has it that banshees have started seeking their own justice in the city. Orpen must decide - can she help to save the society that she found, or must they try to build a new one?
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Reviews
A fierily compelling dystopian thriller crackling with resonances of the now. Sarah Davis-Goff proves herself a storyteller of remarkable gifts in this provocative gobsmacker of a novel
Vibrant and unsettling. A haunting read
Davis-Goff is one of the leading pioneers of a genre that is surely declaring itself a force to be reckoned with
Heartstopping action scenes that live long in the memory
The action is exhilarating, the central characters complex
A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse
Brutal and beautiful, Orpen's story is a cry against complacency. Davis-Goff invites us to examine what has always been, and fight for who and what we might be
A fiercely compelling dystopian thriller... Sarah Davis-Goff proves herself a storyteller or remarkable gifts in this provocative gobsmacker of a novel