Black Wings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
"This intriguing twist on the chosen child in an elite school trope confronts the reader with a number of unsettling questions that will linger long after the final page has turned." - Publishers Weekly
Briella Blake has always been wicked smart. When she’s invited to attend a special school for gifted students, she finally has the chance to focus on a project that begins to consume her – the ability to recreate and save copies of a person’s entire set of memories. Her friendship with a raven that’s as smart as she is leads to conflict with her mother Marian, who is no longer able to deny that there’s something wrong with her child.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hart (Little Secrets) turns some familiar tropes on edge in this emotionally fraught and unsettling psychological horror outing. When Briella was young, her mother, Marian Blake, saw only the best in her. But now, age 10, Briella has grown frighteningly intelligent, isolated from her peers, and fascinated by a raven she names Onyx. Marian and her second husband deem it a blessing when Briella is awarded a full scholarship to Parkhaven, a school for exceptionally gifted children until the school provides Briella the time and resources to work on her ultimate project: to find a way to copy human souls. Trapped in her house by a complicated pregnancy, Marian realizes that Briella is willing and capable of killing to further her research, with help from the increasingly loyal Onyx. Briella's inner thoughts remain inaccessible, limiting the impression she makes on the reader, but Marian's struggles with her daughter's lack of conscience provides a chilling and deeply empathetic journey. This intriguing twist on the chosen child in an elite school trope confronts the reader with a number of unsettling questions that will linger long after the final page has turned.)
