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Wilder Girls

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What to expect

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

Critics Review

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.
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 This Mortal Coil
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, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn
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, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation
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 Teeth in the Mist
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

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