The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD

She was no longer freakish, no longer stunted. Blooming into herself, at last.

Jess is an artist: she cares about feelings, sensation, beauty.

She allows herself a burst of pride at the completed painting, as if a part of her already knows it will be a very long time before she holds a brush in her hand again.

A Wave of Dreams, by Louis Aragon.

unravelling a story like a spool of knotted thread.

The rush of pain she feels is as much for Jess as it is for herself.

Her hunger for the world and all its workings was never sated.

She will write them back into history. Bring them to the surface, the light. It doesn’t matter that she won’t be going back to university; that she won’t become a journalist. After all, there is more than one way to tell the truth.

Time seemed different, under the sea, slow and sinuous.