Bloomsbury have launched the trailer for The Bone Season, the first book
in a dazzling new fantasy series being published on 20 August this year. The
book is already being developed for film by Andy Serkis' The Imaginarium
Studios. The author Samantha Shannon is a 21 year-old currently completing her finals at Oxford
University.
Welcome to Scion, no safer place.
It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, kidnapped and drugged, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept
secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly
race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite creature with dark honey
skin and heavy-lidded yellow eyes. He is her master. Her trainer. Her
natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow
herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine – a young woman
learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been
taken from her. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with
huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a
bold new reality in this riveting debut.
A selection of some of amazing advance quotes follow:
'Truly extraordinary and thrilling.' Andy Serkis
'A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy as their own. Leading
the charge is Samantha Shannon.' Harper's Bazaar
'A dark and exquisitely rendered fantasy unlike anything out there. The
Bone Season is a must read.' Kami Garcia, co-author of the Beautiful
Creatures series
'Samantha Shannon has a hugely inventive talent and an imagination with
seven league boots. She's hit the ground running.' Susan Hill
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