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'Sullivan has an eye for the uncanny, a taste for the macabre, and a gift for beautiful prose. Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best book yet.' Louise O'Neill
'This is the novel the recent Sabrina reboot wishes it could be - a thrilling, eerie exploration of sisterhood, first love and dark powers hiding out of sight.' Dave Rudden
Sixteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfrann, a strange isolated Irish town, a place where the earth is littered with small corpses and unspoken truths. A place where, for generations, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains. As distance grows between the twins - as Catlin falls in love, and Madeline begins to understand her own nascent witchcraft - Madeline discovers that Ballyfrann is a place full of predators. And when Catlin falls into the gravest danger of all, Madeline must ask herself who she really is, and who she wants to be - or rather, who she might have to become to save her sister. Deirdre Sullivan is a writer from Galway. Her 2016 novel Needlework was awarded a White Raven and the CBI Honour Award for fiction. Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of dark fairy-tale retellings, won an Irish Book Award in 2017, and her first book for Hot Key Books, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, was shortlisted for the Awards in 2019. Her most recent book is Savage Her Reply with Little Island Books, a companion title to Tangleweed and Brine. Deirdre loves reading, knitting, bodily autonomy and guinea-pigs. Twin sisters. An isolated community. Generations of dark secrets ... This is the novel to break Deirdre out - this novel takes her into different territory to her previous books with a more ambitious, sweeping and brilliantly crafted story Deirdre won the teen/YA Irish Book Award 2017 for her latest novel TANGLEWEED AND BRINE as well as the CBI Book of the Year award For readers who love lyrical, dark stories with a fantastical edge - perfect for fans of Moira Fowley Doyle, Peadar O' Guilin, Frances Hardinge, Laure Eve, Leigh Bardugo, Louise O'Neill's The Surface Breaks A story with timely feminist themes and message - there is a call in this novel to those girls who are forgotten, whose deaths could have been prevented; and a study of the ways in which girls are vulnerable and ignored A novel with a brilliantly poised mix of dark and light, humour and gravitas, supernatural and the ordinary
'This is the novel the recent Sabrina reboot wishes it could be - a thrilling, eerie exploration of sisterhood, first love and dark powers hiding out of sight.' Dave Rudden
Sixteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfrann, a strange isolated Irish town, a place where the earth is littered with small corpses and unspoken truths. A place where, for generations, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains. As distance grows between the twins - as Catlin falls in love, and Madeline begins to understand her own nascent witchcraft - Madeline discovers that Ballyfrann is a place full of predators. And when Catlin falls into the gravest danger of all, Madeline must ask herself who she really is, and who she wants to be - or rather, who she might have to become to save her sister. Deirdre Sullivan is a writer from Galway. Her 2016 novel Needlework was awarded a White Raven and the CBI Honour Award for fiction. Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of dark fairy-tale retellings, won an Irish Book Award in 2017, and her first book for Hot Key Books, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, was shortlisted for the Awards in 2019. Her most recent book is Savage Her Reply with Little Island Books, a companion title to Tangleweed and Brine. Deirdre loves reading, knitting, bodily autonomy and guinea-pigs. Twin sisters. An isolated community. Generations of dark secrets ... This is the novel to break Deirdre out - this novel takes her into different territory to her previous books with a more ambitious, sweeping and brilliantly crafted story Deirdre won the teen/YA Irish Book Award 2017 for her latest novel TANGLEWEED AND BRINE as well as the CBI Book of the Year award For readers who love lyrical, dark stories with a fantastical edge - perfect for fans of Moira Fowley Doyle, Peadar O' Guilin, Frances Hardinge, Laure Eve, Leigh Bardugo, Louise O'Neill's The Surface Breaks A story with timely feminist themes and message - there is a call in this novel to those girls who are forgotten, whose deaths could have been prevented; and a study of the ways in which girls are vulnerable and ignored A novel with a brilliantly poised mix of dark and light, humour and gravitas, supernatural and the ordinary