The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
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Beschreibung des Verlags
An all-girls school is struck with mysterious cases of screaming hysteria in this chilling dark academia thriller haunted by a deeply buried history clawing to the light.
For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette’s, with its reputation for shaping only the best and brightest young women.
Unfortunately, there is also the screaming.
When a student begins to scream in the middle of class, a chain reaction starts that impacts the entire school. By the end of the day, seventeen girls are affected—along with St. Bernadette’s stellar reputation.
Khadijah’s got her own scars to tend to, and watching her friends succumb to hysteria only rips apart wounds she’d rather keep closed. But when her sister falls to the screams, Khad knows she’s the only one who can save her.
Rachel has always been far too occupied trying to reconcile her overbearing mother’s expectations with her own secret ambitions to pay attention to school antics. But just as Rachel finds her voice, it turns into screams.
Together, the two girls find themselves digging deeper into the school’s dark history, hunting for the truth. Little do they know that a specter lurks in the darkness, watching, waiting, and hungry for its next victim…
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The students of St. Bernadette's, a 112-year-old premier all-girls school, inexplicably begin to let out terrified, unrelenting screams in this electrifyingly dark thriller set in Kuala Lumpur. Following an undisclosed incident, 16-year-old Khadijah hasn't spoken in three months and avoids physical touch. Meanwhile, almost-17-year-old Rachel is a top student, but her every move is dictated by her wealthy mother. When teens begin screaming one by one and are unable to stop, officials blame ghosts and mass hysteria. After Khad's younger sister is beget by the scream—and as those affected begin disappearing—Khad and her friends endeavor to solve the mystery. Rachel soon joins in, and together, the girls learn the truth about their beloved school and the real-life monsters that inhabit it. Over the course of the investigation, Alkaf (Night of the Living Head) gradually unveils details surrounding Khad and Rachel's pasts. Piercing observations into the teens' struggles gaining autonomy are explored alongside sensitively wrought instances of trauma and sexual violence via immersive prose peppered with Malay words and phrases. Most characters are Malaysian Muslim. Ages 14–up.
