Jennie Melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specialises in working with traumatised children. She lives in Seattle. This is her first novel.
An intriguing, gorgeously realised and written novel which
inexorably draws you into its dark heart
*Kate Hamer*
It's a richly envisioned world, the strange isolation of which
Melamed is excellent at teasing out slowly
*Independent*
An exceptional debut
*Sunday Telegraph*
A skilful novel full of suspense
*Guardian*
An assured, lyrical and vivid debut
*Irish Independent*
An obvious comparison is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and
Melamed is more than equal a writer. Her prose is exact, the
premise chilling and her characters all too plausible
*Daily Mail, top debuts of 2017*
Obsessed with The Handmaid's Tale? This brilliant book is the one
for you
*Stylist*
[A] dark, compelling debut... At a time when it feels as if women's
rights around the world are being slowly eroded this absorbing
novel is both gripping and to-the-bone chilling. Melamed is
definitely a talent to watch.
*Daily Express*
Gather the Daughters is an always-compelling and sometimes-shocking
read as the horrific secrets of the island are slowly revealed. I
read it in one sleep-deprived sitting
*Red Magazine*
Gather The Daughters is extraordinary, powerful, and harrowing-and
yet hopeful in its portrait of the human spirit and the endurance
of love. This is a visceral book on all levels and it is haunting
me still
*Julie Cohen*
A terrifying work of speculative fiction ... Melamed is a masterful
writer, and she establishes a hauntingly vivid atmosphere....This
is a haunting work in the spirit of The Handmaid's Tale-but Melamed
more than holds her own. Fearsome, vivid, and raw
*Kirkus Reviews*
Melamed's haunting and powerful debut blazes a fresh path in the
tradition of classic dystopian works...a searing portrayal of a
utopian society gone wrong...Melamed's prose is taut and precise.
Her nuanced characters and honest examination of the crueler sides
of human nature establish her as a formidable author in the vein of
Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood
*Publishers Weekly*
At times harrowing in its depiction of cruelty, at other times
joy-filled and buoyed by the spirit of liberated girlhood, this is
an exhilarating, feminist cry-out, which I hope finds a wide
readership
*The Big Issue*
A chilling, vividly realised feminist novel that propels the reader
into the dark heart of a cruelly repressive and sinister
society
*Daily Mail*
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