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Wing - Nikki Gemmel
Wing - Nikki Gemmel
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Step into a gripping and provocative literary thriller with Wing by Nikki Gemmell. This heart-racing novel blends the tension of Lord of the Flies with the eerie mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock and the fierce relevance of Promising Young Woman.
When a group of elite schoolgirls and their teacher vanish on a camping trip in the Australian bush, the search for answers becomes a battle of silence, secrets, and survival. As the community struggles to piece together what happened, Wing delves into themes of power, friendship, and the unsettling dynamics of gender. It’s a story of unspoken truths and the fault lines that shape relationships between mothers and daughters, friends, and generations.
Written with the raw honesty that defines Gemmell’s style, Wing is for readers of Charlotte Wood and Suzie Miller. It's bold, sharp, and an absolute must-read for anyone ready to confront the complexities of being a woman today.
Read if you like: gripping psychological thrillers with literary depth, such as The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood or The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.
Album Match: Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
Blurb
Blurb
Students from an elite girls' school go on a camping trip into the Australian bush. Four of them - a girl gang, a group of best friends dubbed 'The Cins' by the teachers - become separated from the main group. A male teacher volunteers to look for them.
None of the five come back.
A major search immediately gets underway. Days crawl past, agonisingly, with no sign of the girls or their teacher. The principal of the school, godmother to one of the missing students, is desperately trying to hold the parents, the school community - and herself - together. She needs to find out what happened before the police do. Finally, separated and traumatised, the four girls re-appear. But the male teacher does not.
And The Cins aren't talking.
Wing is an immersive, propulsive, headlong, heartrush of a read. Provocative, sharp, raging and tender, it is a novel about the fault lines in female friendships. Between mothers and daughters. Between older and younger generations. And of course, between men and women. It is a novel that meets its times head on, with great power, honesty and urgency. As the author of the international sensation, The Bride Stripped Bare, Nikki Gemmell defined sex, desire and identity for a generation of women. Now, two decades later, she comes full circle, with another incendiary novel about what it means to be a woman today.
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