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Gather the Daughters: Shortlisted for The Arthur C Clarke Award Book

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 A frighteningly believable dystopian vision, Jennie Melamed’s debut imagines a world where resources are scarce, lives short and women’s fertility a valuable commodity. She can’t see the point of the repetitiveness of it all, people living to create more people and then dying when they’re useless, to make room for even more people On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, a ritual offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps, to roam the island, sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. To be free. At the end of one of such summer, one of the younger girls sees something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home with a truth that could bring their island world to its knees. Echoing the hauntingly entrancing quality of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Gather the Daughters spins a tail of women’s lives and bodies subsumed by a repressive, abusive social order. Intertwining the perspectives of four teenage girls on the brink of entering the frightening world of adulthood, the novel weaves a story of defiance and indomitable spirit which feels perfectly primed for our time.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    'An exceptional debut' Sunday Telegraph 'Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one for you' Stylist 'An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart' Kate Hamer On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, a ritual offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps, to roam the island, sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. To be free. At the end of one of such summer, one of the younger girls sees something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home with a truth that could bring their island world to its knees. 'A skilful novel full of suspense' Guardian 'It's a richly envisioned world, the strange isolation of which Melamed is excellent at teasing out slowly' Independent

  • BookDepository

    Gather the Daughters : Paperback : Headline Publishing Group : 9781472241726 : : 05 Apr 2018 : For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, THE GIRLS and THE POWER, this dark, unsettling and compelling story of an isolated island cult will get under your skin.

  • 147224172X
  • 9781472241726
  • Melamed, Jennie
  • 5 April 2018
  • Tinder Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
  • 1
  • Book
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