The Furies

‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’ THE TIMES ‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’ STYLIST ‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’ HEAT IT’S 1997. VIOLET IS A NEW STUDENT AT ELM HOLLOW ACADEMY AND DESPERATE TO FIT IN. Quiet, artistic, unremarkable. When invited to an advanced study group by her alluring art teacher, Annabel, she is at once terrified and delighted. There she meets Robin, Grace, and Alex: charismatic outsiders who invite her into their clique. But once the study sessions on the school’s history of seventeenth-century witchcraft and magic become more than just theory, Violet must decide what she’s prepared to do in order to stay popular. And maybe she’ll solve the mystery of what happened to a former member of their group. The one who went missing. In The Furies, Katie Lowe masterfully weaves a tale of coming-of-age and friendship, set against a backdrop of the supernatural and the occult. This psychological thriller is a bestseller, gripping readers with its exploration of the dark side of teenage desire to fit in. For fans of Stephen King (The Outsider), Janice Hallett (The Appeal), Alex Michaelides (The Maidens), Ashley Winstead (In My Dreams I Hold a Knife), and Donna Tartt (The Secret History).