The New Girl
By (Author) S.L. Grey
Atlantic Books
Corvus
30th October 2013
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
244g
Don't mess with the creepy new girl. Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her.
Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time. Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme - one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College.
"Grey provides a deliciously unsettling depiction of a deeply inhuman world that nonetheless aspires to imitate ours." --"Publishers Weekly"
Sarah Lotz is a crime novelist and screenwriter with an interest in zombie fiction. Louis Greenberg is a literary writer, editor and bookseller who has studied vampire and apocalyptic fiction. When they decided to write the first mainstream South African horror novel together, S.L. Grey was born. Visit their website at slgrey.book.co.za