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The Furies
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3.3 • 31 Ratings
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’
THE TIMES
‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’
STYLIST
‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’
HEAT
IT’S 1997. VIOLET IS A NEW STUDENT AT ELM HOLLOW ACADEMY AND DESPERATE TO FIT IN.
Quiet, artistic, unremarkable. When invited to an advanced study group by her alluring art teacher, Annabel, she is at once terrified and delighted.
There she meets Robin, Grace, and Alex: charismatic outsiders who invite her into their clique.
But once the study sessions on the school’s history of seventeenth-century witchcraft and magic become more than just theory, Violet must decide what she’s prepared to do in order to stay popular.
And maybe she’ll solve the mystery of what happened to a former member of their group. The one who went missing.
Reviews
‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’
THE TIMES
‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’
STYLIST
‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’
HEAT
‘A perfect tale of teenage emotion and darkness’
EMERALD STREET
‘Witchcraft, murder and adolescent passion…Unsettling and suspenseful’
SUNDAY MIRROR
‘A potential hit’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘A spell-binding debut that examines the dark heart of friendship, obsession, and revenge. I was bewitched by Katie Lowe's deliciously chilling storytelling. THE FURIES is a compulsive and unsettling read, dripping in atmosphere and suspense’
Lucy Clarke, bestselling author of YOU LET ME IN
‘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, bestselling author of ONLY EVER YOURS
‘THE FURIES is mesmerising, disturbing and completely addictive – it's a brilliant book about the power, vulnerability and rage of teenage girls, and it couldn't feel more timely. Lowe's beautiful prose is thrillingly, chillingly dark, and Violet is the sort of heroine that you want to throw yourself down the rabbit hole with – you know that she's going somewhere terrifying but you have to follow her journey’
Daisy Buchanan, author of THE SISTERHOOD
‘Witchcraft, teenage angst, friendship, murder. A beautifully-paced debut with hints of THE SECRET HISTORY. Intense, stylish, and deliciously dark’
Will Dean, author of DARK PINES
‘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
About the author
Katie Lowe is a writer living in Worcester, UK. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Katie has a BA (Hons) in English and an MPhil in Literature & Modernity, and is returning to Birmingham in 2019 to commence her PhD on female rage in literary modernism and contemporary women’s writing. The Furies is her first novel.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Fans of The Craft and The Virgin Suicide meet your new favourite book. This is a deeply atmospheric read that’s part enigmatic cold case, part supernatural mystery and part riveting coming-of-age tale. The web of mysteries that author Katie Lowe sets us to discover just what happened to a 16-year-old schoolgirl found murdered on a swing is a dark joy to unfurl, particularly in the company of her dazzling heroine, Violet. Considering its boundless energy and swarm of intelligent ideas, Lowe does remarkably well to keep things grounded. It’s a devastatingly rewarding book.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lowe's powerful and atmospheric debut features a troubled young woman who becomes entangled in witchcraft and murder at a private British all-girls school. Soon after starting at Elm Hollow Academy, teen Violet Taylor falls in with Alex, Grace, and their chain-smoking, impossibly cool ringleader, Robin, and begins drinking, shoplifting, and taking drugs. She especially bonds with Robin and joins an exclusive study group where the girls explore the "great women of art and literature," including the rumors that Elm Hollow's founder was a powerful witch. After Violet is sexually assaulted, she and her friends perform a dark revenge ritual involving animal sacrifice. When the brutalized body of student Emily Frost, who was missing for months, is found in the elm in Elm Hollow's courtyard, the girls pin her murder on the dean, leading to further shocking violence. Lowe's sinuous prose weaves a disturbing tale of friendship, obsession, and revenge, and readers must decide whether Violet is a trustworthy narrator. Those who thrill to dark coming-of-age tales with a dash of the uncanny will find much to enjoy.