The Shadow Cabinet
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty’s Royal Coven
All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven…
Despite thinking they’ve thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of the past few months.
Ciara now occupies her twin sister’s body as she prepares to take on the role of High Priestess. But why are the sinister government agents of the Shadow Cabinet so invested in her coronation?
And then there’s the small matter of Dabney Hale: freshly escaped from Grierlings prison, he’s on the hunt for a mythical object that will give him unimaginable power. Leonie’s brother is on the trail, but doesn’t know the danger he now faces, and so she sets off to bring him home and bring Hale to justice.
Meanwhile, Theo and Holly are left to their own devices. Theo to work out how her miraculous transformation took place and Holly to discover what’s going on with her mum and dad. Elle’s Instagram-perfect world is about to come crashing down in the most terrifying way.
Payback’s a witch as Ciara, Leonie, Elle, Theo and Holly are about to find out.
Readers are spellbound by HMRC:
'Juno Dawson is at the top of her game in this vibrant and meticulous take on witchcraft. Her characteristic wit and grit shine through’ Samantha Shannon
‘I fell in love with her coven’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave
‘A breath of fresh air’ Joanne Harris
‘Utterly compelling’ Louise O’Neill
‘I devoured this’ Lindsey Kelk
‘Thrilling and hair-raising’ Russell T Davies
About the author
Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and a columnist for Attitude magazine.
Juno’s books include the global bestsellers, This Book Is Gay and Clean. She won the 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared in the BBC’s I May Destroy You (2020) and Holby City (2021) and was the face of Jecca Cosmetics Play Pots campaign.
Her journalism has appeared in Glamour, The Pool, Dazed and the Guardian. She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC’s Women’s Hour, Front Row, ITV News, Channel 5 News, This Morning and Newsnight.
Juno lives in Brighton. She is a part of the queer cabaret collective known as CLUB SILENCIO. In 2014, Juno became a School Role Model for the charity STONEWALL.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The brilliant and fast-paced second contemporary political fantasy in Dawson's HMRC trilogy (after Her Majesty's Royal Coven) takes the series to new heights. Ciara Kelly wakes from a 10-year coma and steals the body of her twin sister, Niamh, just before Niamh is set to take the helm as HMRC's High Priestess. She struggles to navigate Niamh's interpersonal relationships without revealing her identity, all while piecing together her fragmented memories and battling her own (literal) demons. Leonie Jackman, the founder of an independent coven, races to locate her brother Radley, who left Britain to track down renegade warlock Dabney Hale. Along the way, she becomes entangled in a much larger plot involving a dangerous and powerful magical artifact. Meanwhile, underground witchfinders, in league with Hale, put into motion a plan that threatens all witchkind in the name of "warlock supremacy." Dawson handles the tricky middle book with aplomb, raising the stakes and deepening the rich worldbuilding without losing sight of the pathos that makes her characters shine. Magic seamlessly weaves with pop culture references, fun soap-operatic twists, and an incisive look at the psychology of violent misogyny. This is the work of a master storyteller.
