Wilder Girls

Emotional and devastating, Rory Power's New York Times bestselling debut is an extraordinary tale of survival and female friendship.

''Your new favourite book'' - Cosmopolitan An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power''s chilling and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of A Good Girl''s Guide to Murder . Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese''s hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely. It''s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don''t dare wander past the school''s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . . ''Wholly original and compelling'' - Observer ''A staggering gut punch of a book'' - Kirkus ''Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller'' - Guardian

A New York Times bestseller, this is a story of survival and the power of female friendships. It's part thriller and part post-apocalyptic romance, celebrating the resilience and strength of girls

Vorwort
Visceral and devastating, Rory Power's New York Times bestselling debut is an extraordinary tale of survival and female friendship.

Autorentext
Rory Power grew up in New England, where she lives and works as a crime fiction editor and story consultant for TV adaptation. She received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia and thinks fondly of her time there, partially because she learned a lot but mostly because there were a ton of bunnies on campus. Her debut novel Wilder Girls was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Klappentext

A debut novel depicting exhilarating feats of survival and female friendship. The Tox turns the students of a girls school strange and savage, while killing off the teachers. As body parts burst and sever, Hetty sets out to find her missing friend Byatt, even if it means breaking quarantine.

Zusammenfassung
Emotional and devastating, Rory Power's New York Times bestselling debut is an extraordinary tale of survival and female friendship.