Amphibian

'Surreal and magical . . . haunting . . . mesmerising.' -Heat

By: Tyler Wetherall

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Paperback | 3 April 2025 | Edition Number 1

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320 Pages

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19.6 x 12.7 x 2.4

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'Has a queasily compelling power' The Times

'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger

'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty' Rebecca Stott

Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.

But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she's no longer alone. Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.

Over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.

Amphibian is a tender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives.

Industry Reviews

compelling . . . Wetherall's prose is thick with the terror and wonder of those turbulent years of physical change . . . laced with mythic, mystic resonances. - The Times

Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty. - Rebecca Stott, Costa Award winning author of In the Days of Rain

Beautiful and haunting . . . Gorgeously written and magically dressed, Amphibian resurrected for me the exquisite and ecstatic pains of girlhood. - Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Sonora and The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

I absolutely love this book. Haunting and visceral as a fairytale, Amphibian captures girlhood in all its feral, mythic glory and horror. Sissy and Tegan have a place in my heart forever. - Lilly Dancyger, author of First Love and Negative Space, and editor of Burn It Down

Surreal and magical . . . haunting . . . mesmerising. - Heat

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