Our Wicked Histories
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
A teen girl's attempt to make amends with her former friendship group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.
At the illustrious Greyscott's Academy, reputation is everything...
For Meg the rules are simple: keep your head down, know your place, and stay invisible until graduation. That is, until the glamorous and intimidating Wren twins - Lottie and Sebastien - decide to take Meg under their gilded wings.
But not all that glitters is gold.
Following an incident at the Midsummer Ball, Meg finds herself suspended from school and shunned by Lottie, Sebastien and all their friends. Desperate to make amends, she accepts an unexpected invitation to an exclusive party at Wren Hall.
But when one of the party-goers disappears and a violent storm traps the group inside the house, she realizes there's more to the Wren twins than meets the eye . . .
"No one does horror quite like Amy Goldsmith! Our Wicked Histories is an expertly crafted novel sure to haunt you long after the very last page" - SKYLA ARNDT, author of Together We Rot
"Our Wicked Histories lured me into its watery depths and left me gasping for air" - CYNTHIA MURPHY, author of Win Lose Kill Die
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In South London, teen Meg Green is determined to make the most of her scholarship to Greyscott's Academy, one of Britain's most elite art schools. After an incident at Greyscott's summer ball results in her friend group abandoning her and a school suspension that jeopardizes her scholarship, Meg is desperate to win back the respect of her affluent peers, especially twins Lottie and Sebastien Chatto-Wren. When Lottie extends an olive branch and invites Meg to a Halloween getaway at the twins' family estate in Ireland, Meg jumps at the chance to reconnect with the group and apologize to the girl she hurt at the ball—Laure Westridge—in hopes that Laure's parents will stop pushing for Meg's expulsion. But as mysterious rumors of a banshee haunting the halls begin circulating and strange happenings start occurring, Meg learns that there is more to the estate—and her friends themselves—than she anticipated. Goldsmith (Those We Drown) brings stunning atmosphere to the forefront of this lushly described gothic mystery that features interrogations of class and gender. Most characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
