Gather the Daughters

By: Jennie Melamed

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Paperback | 5 April 2018 | Edition Number 1

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448 Pages

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2.8 x 12.9 x 19.7

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On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood.

But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. They are free.

It is at the end of one of these summers, as the first frost laces the ground, that one of the younger girls witnesses something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home, muddy and terrified, clutching in her small hand a truth that could unravel their carefully constructed island world forever.

About the Author

Jennie Melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specialises in working with traumatised children. She lives in Seattle. This is her first novel.

Industry Reviews

'An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which inexorably draws you into its dark heart' - Kate Hamer

An exceptional debut - Sunday Telegraph

A skilful novel full of suspense - Guardian

It's a richly envisioned world, the strange isolation of which Melamed is excellent at teasing out slowly - Independent

A chilling, vividly realised feminist novel that propels the reader into the dark heart of a cruelly repressive and sinister society - Daily Mail

Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one for you - Stylist

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