Silent City
From the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive.
'A provocative gobsmacker of a novel' Joseph O'Connor'A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse' GuardianOrpen has always been an outsider in Phoenix City - the only outsider admitted to the ranks of the banshees. As one of them, she protects the city from the skrake, the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the country outside the city walls.Unrest is building in the city - a deadly sickness costs ever more lives, while the fighting women are increasingly wearing of enforcing the Management's patriarchal rule.Rumour has it that banshees have started seeking their own justice in the city. Orpen must decide - can she help to save the society that she found, or must they try to build a new one?Sarah Davis-Goff was born in Dublin, where she still lives and writes. Her first novel, Last Ones Left Alive, to which Silent City is the sequel, was shortlisted for the IBA and Kate O'Brien Awards, and winner of a Chrysalis Award.
Author: Sarah Davis-Goff
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 126mm x 196mm, 200 g
Published: 2024, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
From the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive.
'A provocative gobsmacker of a novel' Joseph O'Connor'A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse' GuardianOrpen has always been an outsider in Phoenix City - the only outsider admitted to the ranks of the banshees. As one of them, she protects the city from the skrake, the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the country outside the city walls.Unrest is building in the city - a deadly sickness costs ever more lives, while the fighting women are increasingly wearing of enforcing the Management's patriarchal rule.Rumour has it that banshees have started seeking their own justice in the city. Orpen must decide - can she help to save the society that she found, or must they try to build a new one?Sarah Davis-Goff was born in Dublin, where she still lives and writes. Her first novel, Last Ones Left Alive, to which Silent City is the sequel, was shortlisted for the IBA and Kate O'Brien Awards, and winner of a Chrysalis Award.