The Furies
This page-turning,
harrowing debut is the story of a girl trying to fit in, whose obsessive
new friends and desperation to belong leads her to places she'd never
imagined...dark, dangerous, and possibly even violent.
In
1998, a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on her boarding school's
property, dressed in white and posed on a swing, with no known cause of
death. What happened to her? And what do her friends know? To find out,
it is necessary to go back to the beginning.
The school is Elm
Hollow Academy, an all-girl's boarding school located in a sleepy
coastal town, with a long-buried grim history of 17th century witch
trials. A new student, Violet, joins the school, and soon finds herself
invited to become the fourth member of an advanced study group, led by
the alluring and mysterious art teacher Annabel.
Annabel does her
best to convince the girls that her classes aren't related to ancient
rites and rituals, and that they are just mythology. But the more she
tries to warn the girls off the topic, the more the girls start to
believe that magic is real and that they have the power to harness it.
Violet
quickly finds herself wrapped up in this addictive new world. But when
she comes to learn about the disappearance of a former member of the
society, one with whom Violet shares an uncanny resemblance, she begins
to wonder who she can trust, all the while becoming more deeply
entangled in her newfound friendships.
Was it suicide, or a foul
play more sinister? How far will these young girls go to protect one
another...or to destroy one another?
Reviews
“Donna Tartt’s The Secret History meets Emma Cline’s The Girls
in this taut, intense, and unputdownable debut. Lowe’s depiction of
adolescent female friendships is at once unthinkably dark and
uncomfortably real. The Furies will leave you breathless.” ―Corrine Sullivan, author of Indecent
“Katie Lowe is a magical wonder! The Furies,
a modern tale of witchcraft, betrayal, and murder, combines
the linguistic pyrotechnics of Poe, the Gothic sensibilities of Daphne du
Maurier, and the psychological suspense of Shirley Jackson in a
disturbing, edge-of-your-seat thriller that will terrify as well as
enchant!” ―V. S. Alexander, author of The Magdalen Girls
“The Furies
is a deliciously disturbing tale of obsession, rapture and the excesses
of youth. Both fast-paced and beautifully written―rarely has a story
this driven and diverting been so ecstatically told. The Furies
is destined to become a book passed from paw to grateful paw.
Unapologetically dark, and all the better for it, this smart, sinister
novel exults in its dazzling prose and dangerous themes.” ―Christopher
J. Yates, author of Grist Mill Road and Black Chalk
“The Furies
is a haunting tale of angry, young women, the fates they hold and
furies they possess. Katie Lowe steers her juggernaut through twists of
madness, revenge and murder to a finish that resonates deeply. It still
hasn’t left me.” ―Peter Filardi, screenwriter of The Craft
“The Furies can be described as Prep meets The Craft,
while managing to be a dark, weird creature all of its own. Witches,
murder, and teenage girls - this is the book of my dreams. I am
obsessed.”― Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For It
KATIE LOWE has a BA(Hons) in
English and an MPhil in Literature and Modernity, plus a half-completed PhD on the influence of the rise of the
far-right on Franco-American literature of the 1930s-50s. In 2012, Katie
started her blog, Fat Girl PhD - writing about body image, feminism and
health, and finding an audience across outlets including the Guardian,
Independent, and the BBC, as well as a number of media in the US, Canada
and Australia.
A
graduate of the University of Birmingham, Katie lives in Worcester, UK. The Furies is her first novel.
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