Silent City
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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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Davis-Goff's eloquent sequel to 2019's Last Ones Left Alive revisits her innovative take on the zombie trope. In a postapocalyptic Ireland, 14-year-old Orpen is rescued from the skrakes—creatures whose humanity has been "flayed away till there's nothing left but mouth and teeth and slug-proboscis-tongue"—by the banshees, a league of black-clad female warriors whose superior combat skills enable them to fend off skrake attacks. Flash-forward six years, and Orpen is now a banshee herself, living in Phoenix City, a stronghold of survivors with high walls to keep out the skrakes. She's proud of her warrior status, but as a series of attacks sweep the city, she begins to question the morality of the regime she serves. Davis-Goff elevates a familiar plot with vivid prose (the abandoned city of Dublin is described as resembling "a crust on the green skin of Ireland, a scab flaking slowly away") and emotionally resonant characterization. Horror fans looking for more than jump-scares will find it here.
