Wing by Nikki Gemmell

An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell – Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman.

Students from an elite girls’ school go on a camping trip into the Australian bush. Four of them – a girl gang, a group of best friends dubbed ‘The Cins’ by the teachers – become separated from the main group. A male teacher volunteers to look for them.

None of the five come back.

A major search immediately gets underway. Days crawl past, agonisingly, with no sign of the girls or their teacher. The principal of the school, godmother to one of the missing students, is desperately trying to hold the parents, the school community – and herself – together. She needs to find out what happened before the police do. Finally, separated and traumatised, the four girls re-appear. But the male teacher does not.

And The Cins aren’t talking.

Wing is an immersive, propulsive, headlong, heartrush of a read. Provocative, sharp, raging and tender, it is a novel about the fault lines in female friendships. Between mothers and daughters. Between older and younger generations. And of course, between men and women. It is a novel that meets its times head on, with great power, honesty and urgency. As the author of the international sensation, The Bride Stripped Bare, Nikki Gemmell defined sex, desire and identity for a generation of women. Now, two decades later, she comes full circle, with another incendiary novel about what it means to be a woman today.

About the Author: Nikki Gemmell writes novels, memoirs, essays and columns. She is the bestselling author of some twenty books, including Shiver, The Bride Stripped Bare, After, The Ripping Tree and Dissolve. Her books have been translated into twenty-two languages. She was born in Wollongong, New South Wales.

02 Oct 2024
 

Wing: The compelling new novel from the award winning author of the bestselling THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE and THE RIPPING TREE, for readers of Charlotte Wood and Suzie Miller by Nikki Gemmell ISBN 9781460761564