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Book SynopsisFrom the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive.''A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse'' GuardianOrpen has always been an outlier in Phoenix City - the only outsider ever admitted to the ranks of the banshees, the female warriors who enforce order, and protect it from the skrake - the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the rest of the country, and gather at the city walls.Unrest is building in the city - a deadly sickness is spreading through the workers, while an unspoken disillusionment is creeping amongst the fighting women, weary of enforcing the all-male management''s patriarchal rule, and of the cost, to their sisters, and to young new recruits, of upholding this order. Rumour has it that banshees have been taking matters into their own hands, and taking swift and violent revenge. When OrTrade ReviewA fierily compelling dystopian thriller crackling with resonances of the now. Sarah Davis-Goff proves herself a storyteller of remarkable gifts in this provocative gobsmacker of a novel -- Joseph O'ConnorVibrant and unsettling. A haunting read -- Danielle McLaughlinDavis-Goff is one of the leading pioneers of a genre that is surely declaring itself a force to be reckoned with * Irish Times *Heartstopping action scenes that live long in the memory * Sunday Business Post *The action is exhilarating, the central characters complex * Sunday Independent *A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse * Guardian *Brutal and beautiful, Orpen's story is a cry against complacency. Davis-Goff invites us to examine what has always been, and fight for who and what we might be -- Tara FlynnA fiercely compelling dystopian thriller... Sarah Davis-Goff proves herself a storyteller or remarkable gifts in this provocative gobsmacker of a novel -- Joseph O'Connor

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Book SynopsisThe definition of a single session read. Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of Artemis FowlFor fans of Station Eleven and The Last of Us, an apocalyptic tale of a young woman fighting for life and justice in the tyrannical Phoenix Citythe only place in Ireland yet to be overrun by the flesh-eating skrake Outside the walls of Phoenix City, where the plague has overrun Ireland, one bite from the savage skrake means death or infection. Inside, Orpen and the other survivors of the plague gather in meager numbers. They are protected from the skrake, but the city is by no means a refuge.Orpen is the only outsider ever admitted to the ranks of the banshees, the fierce, all-women force of fighters who push back the hungry skrake gathered at the city walls. Phoenix City is ruled with an oppressive handits best leaders power-hungry and ruthlessand the banshees keep the peace, or shatter it, depending on their orders.But unrest is building i

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