BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books.Melamed's haunting and powerful debut blazes a fresh path in the tradition of classic dystopian works.a searing portrayal of a utopian society gone wrong.Melamed's prose is taut and precise.

Fearsome, vivid, and raw * Kirkus Reviews * Melamed is a masterful writer, and she establishes a hauntingly vivid atmosphere.This is a haunting work in the spirit of The Handmaid's Tale-but Melamed more than holds her own. This is a visceral book on all levels and it is haunting me still - Julie CohenĪ terrifying work of speculative fiction. Gather The Daughters is extraordinary, powerful, and harrowing-and yet hopeful in its portrait of the human spirit and the endurance of love. I read it in one sleep-deprived sitting * Red Magazine * Gather the Daughters is an always-compelling and sometimes-shocking read as the horrific secrets of the island are slowly revealed. At a time when it feels as if women's rights around the world are being slowly eroded this absorbing novel is both gripping and to-the-bone chilling. Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one for you * Stylist * Her prose is exact, the premise chilling and her characters all too plausible * Daily Mail, top debuts of 2017 * It's a richly envisioned world, the strange isolation of which Melamed is excellent at teasing out slowly * Independent *Īn exceptional debut * Sunday Telegraph *Ī skilful novel full of suspense * Guardian *Īn assured, lyrical and vivid debut * Irish Independent *Īn obvious comparison is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Melamed is more than equal a writer. 'It's a richly envisioned world, the strange isolation of which Melamed is excellent at teasing out slowly' IndependentĪn intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart - Kate Hamer 'A skilful novel full of suspense' Guardian

And she returns home with a truth that could bring their island world to its knees. To be free.Īt the end of one of such summer, one of the younger girls sees something she was never supposed to see. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps, to roam the island, sleep on the beach and build camps in trees.

Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood.īut before that time comes, a ritual offers children an exhilarating reprieve. On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. ' An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart' Kate Hamer

'Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one for you' Stylist

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