BOOK OF NIGHT

Jumping at shadows

- Rhian Drinkwater

RELEASED 3 MAY

5/5

320 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Holly Black Publisher Del Rey

The labels we give ourselves can often define us, from our relationships with others (daughter, sister, girlfriend) to how we present to the world (outgoing, capable, sensitive). For Charlie Hall, the woman at the centre of Black’s latest novel, the label is trouble. With a capital T.

Charlie lives in a world where magic has, in recent decades, become fully visible to society at large – and it’s all about your shadow. A “quickened” shadow makes someone a gloamist, able to manipulate that shadow in different ways to trigger different emotions, inflict terror and harm, or creep into locked rooms.