A teen girl's attempt to make amends with her former friendship group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.
At the illustrious Greyscott's Academy, reputation is everything...
For Meg the rules are simple: keep your head down, know your place, and stay invisible until graduation. That is, until the glamorous and intimidating Wren twins - Lottie and Sebastien - decide to take Meg under their gilded wings.
But not all that glitters is gold.
Following an incident at the Midsummer Ball, Meg finds herself suspended from school and shunned by Lottie, Sebastien and all their friends. Desperate to make amends, she accepts an unexpected invitation to an exclusive party at Wren Hall.
But when one of the party-goers disappears and a violent storm traps the group inside the house, she realizes there's more to the Wren twins than meets the eye . . .
"No one does horror quite like Amy Goldsmith! Our Wicked Histories is an expertly crafted novel sure to haunt you long after the very last page" - SKYLA ARNDT, author of Together We Rot
"Our Wicked Histories lured me into its watery depths and left me gasping for air" - CYNTHIA MURPHY, author of Win Lose Kill Die Amy grew up on the south coast of England, obsessed with obscure seventies horror movies and antiquarian ghost stories. She studied psychology at the University of Sussex and, after gaining her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, moved to inner London to teach. Now, she lives back on the south coast where she still teaches English and spends her weekends trawling antiques shops for haunted mirrors. Our Wicked Histories is her second novel, Amy's first book Those We Drown was published in summer 2023. When Meg travels to Wren Hall in Ireland for a reunion with classmates from the prestigious Greyscott's Academy she hopes to resolve past issues. Yet something sinister is afoot and revenge, rather than forgiveness, is on the menu for these teens ... A spookier, more 'adult' to read, a natural progression from YA thriller, which is having a big moment now, to YA horror. This has been picked up by Delacorte Press in the US, who are spearheading the YA horror trend and are publishing some very strong titles. Perfect for fans of the Dark Academia trend who love discussing books on social media.
