Plain Bad Heroines

`Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief` SARAH WATERS `Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening` GUARDIAN `Atmospheric, sexy, creepy...totally addictive` KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End `A gloriously over-the-top queer romp` I PAPER

`It`s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after...` Brookhants School For Girls: Infamous site of a series of tragic deaths over a hundred years ago. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured `Brookhants curse`: In the early 1900`s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. Now, the school`s doors are open once more. But as the crew of glamorous young actresses assemble to start filming, past and present begin to blur. And soon it`s impossible to tell quite where the curse ends and Hollywood begins...

`Buzzing with wickedness...sly, wry and dangerous to know` Rosie Garland `Ingenious, jaw-dropping...a queer roar and it`s terrifying and it`s a goddamned triumph` Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World `Wears its brilliance lightly...it`s dark, sweet, and addictive. Simply one of the best books I`ve read in the last decade` Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman `A hot amalgamation of gothic horror and Hollywood satire, it`s draped with depth but bursting with life` Washington Post `A deviously delicious cake` O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE