BRITISH VOGUE STAR OF THE FUTUREINDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADEA gripping sinister fable Margaret AtwoodAn extraordinary debut otherworldly luminous precise GuardianBold inventive haunting . . . With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride youll be bowled over by it StylistA hypnotic comingofage story for fans of The Power The Vegetarian I Who Have Never Known Men and The GirlsGrace Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel on a sunbleached island beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore men who stare at the sisters hungrily helplessly. Men who bring trouble.A feminist fable set by the sea a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book Id been waiting to read for a long time Emma Jane UnsworthVisceral hypnotic with one of my favourite endings Ive read in a long while The PoolAn unsettling dark fantasy... It lingers long after the final page Daily Telegraph