EAN: 9781529100600

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'. . . seethes with love and brutality violence and hope . . . a remarkable and timely story of the bonds between women' Sabaa Tahir 'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha Ngan _____________________________________________THE RESISTANCE STARTS HERE.No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden. We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds make boys lose their minds and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilisation. But I don't feel powerful. I don't feel magical. Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a year. They must rid themselves of their dangerous magic before returning purified and ready to marry - if they're lucky. It is forbidden to speak of the grace year but even so every girl knows that the coming year will change them - if they survive it... A critically acclaimed page-turning feminist dystopia about a young woman trapped in an oppressive society fighting to take control of her own life. 'Beautiful devastating and deeply moving' Samira Ahmed New York Times bestselling author of Internment and Love Hate & Other Filters 'A visceral darkly haunting fever dream of a novel . . . I couldn't stop reading' Libba Bray New York Times bestselling author of The Diviners and A Great and Terrible Beauty

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