A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School. When Penny’s new mentor offers her an opportunity she cannot refuse, to have a portrait painted by a mysterious artist who can grant immortal beauty to all his subjects, Penny happily follows in the footsteps of Dorian’s most glittering alumni, knowing that stardom is sure to soon be hers. But when her trusted mentor is found murdered, Penny realises she’s made a terrible mistake – a sinister someone is using the uncanny portraits to kill off the subjects one by one. As more perfectly beautiful students start to fall, Penny knows her time is running out . . . A seductive and searing exploration of beauty, identity, and what the pursuit of perfection can truly cost. Praise for The Society for Soulless Girls ’A twisty, sexy, smart haunting of a book, full of eloquent rage' Kiran Millwood-Hargrave ‘An intimate exploration of women’s anger, bladed with mystery and sapphic desire. Laura Steven has cut a modern Gothic gem, leaving room for glints of her trademark humour’ – Samantha Shannon ‘A fast-paced feminist horror, that manages to be oh-so-romantic and oh-so-haunting all at once’ – Alexandra Christo, bestselling author of TO KILL A KINGDOM ‘As seductive as it is sinister’ – Kate Dunn ‘Dark, clever and filled to the brim with feminist rage, Steven has crafted the sapphic dark academia of dreams – and of nightmares’ – Francesca May The most seductive new sapphic YA dark academia thriller of 2023 Laura Steven is an award-winning author from the northernmost town in England. She has published several books for children and young adults; her debut novel The Exact Opposite Of Okay won the inaugural Comedy Women In Print Prize, while The Love Hypothesis was optioned for TV by an Emmy-winning team. Her books have been widely translated, and her work has appeared in The i Paper, The Guardian and Buzzfeed. The most seductive new sapphic YA dark academia thriller of 2023 • A YA horror-thriller retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray in a dark academia setting• Society for Soulless Girls was Laura’s first foray into darker, more speculative fiction and it’s really taken off with a huge Tiktok fanbase• Laura has racked up 18.4K followers on TikTok. Both the Laura Steven and the Society for Soulless Girls hashtags have 2M views. This is the perfect book to appeal to the following she’s already built and grow her audience.• Laura Steven won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print prize for her YA debut The Exact Opposite of Okay. Competition: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue;Ace of Spaces;Inheritance Games;Good Girl’s Guide to Murder;One of Us is Lying;We Were Liars;Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle;They Both Die at the End. By;Sarah J Maas;Jennifer Lynn Barnes;Karen McManus;Holly Jackson;E. Lockhart;VE Schwab;Adam Silvera
Publicat de: HarperCollins Publishers