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The Oversight

Oversight Trilogy (Book 6)

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What to expect

"The end always comes faster than you think."

Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. And their numbers are dwindling further still.

When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she might answer their hopes for a new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.

In his first novel for adults, Charlie Fletcher (The Stoneheart Trilogy) spins a tale of witch-hunters, supra-naturalists, mirror-walkers and magicians. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all.

Critics Review

Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing
M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
A highly entertaining fantasy that promises a trilogy worth sinking your teeth into
SciFiNow
Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre Dickensian wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step
Frances Hardinge, Costa Book of the Year winner
Told in a kind of compelling and hypnotic poesie that I just lapped up . . . I'll certainly be reading the next one
BoingBoing.net
A richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane
Adam Roberts
The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special . . . It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as.
Tor.com
A remarkable combination of British folklore, brisk pacing and wide-ranging imagination
Kirkus Reviews
Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough
Booklist (starred review)
Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke
Lou Morgan
Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing.
Mike Carey
Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step.
Frances Hardinge
A richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane.
Adam Roberts
Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough. (starred review)
Booklist
The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special . . . It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as.
Tor.com
Author Charlie Fletcher
Narrator Simon Prebble
Series Oversight Trilogy
Duration 14 hours and 48 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405531610
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Adventure fiction, Fantasy, Fiction: general and literary, Historical adventure fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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