A bravura sequence of adolescent thrill and romantic fireworks that shows Toon at the peak of her powers... What Toon’s really fabulous at… are those compelling teenage relationships that she opens the novel ...
Sunday Times
Like so much good horror, this is about guilt and unreliable memory
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
Skilfully handled themes of guilt, regret and adolescent confusion coupled with dark academia make for an insidious tingle of doom
Guardian
A bravura sequence of adolescent thrill and romantic fireworks that shows Toon at the peak of her powers... What Toon’s really fabulous at… are those compelling teenage relationships that she opens the novel ...
Sunday Times
Like so much good horror, this is about guilt and unreliable memory
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
Skilfully handled themes of guilt, regret and adolescent confusion coupled with dark academia make for an insidious tingle of doom
Guardian
A bravura sequence of adolescent thrill and romantic fireworks that shows Toon at the peak of her powers... What Toon’s really fabulous at… are those compelling teenage relationships that she opens the novel ...
Sunday Times
Like so much good horror, this is about guilt and unreliable memory
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
Skilfully handled themes of guilt, regret and adolescent confusion coupled with dark academia make for an insidious tingle of doom
‘We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn’
In a month when violence against women has dominated the headlines, author Francine Toon examines the potent – and the persistent – symbol of the witch at moments of female pain and rage.
