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Hardcover The Five of Us Book

ISBN: B0GH31RTZJ

ISBN13: 9798228805170

The Five of Us

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From the bestselling author of She Started It comes an unsettling, propulsive thriller where home is not a sanctuary, isolation looms, and the future has evaporated. All that's left is fear, frustration, and an anger that won't go away.

Meet Crow, Goldfinch, Starling, Wren, and Cuckoo--five girls who will never tell you their real names. They're the brightest students at an underfunded, inner-city Bristol school, pushing toward opportunity despite the odds stacked against them. They believe they're on the cusp of something better ... until the world abruptly shuts down. Exams are cancelled, their plans collapse, and the future dissolves into a fog of uncertainty.

With long nights, a city under curfew, and nothing left to lose, the girls slip into a world of dark possibility. Each illicit outing becomes its own kind of dangerous magic. Their choices spiral--from reckless to ruthless--and by the end of a strange, suspended summer, more than one person will be dead.

Seven years later, the survivors have not spoken since. But someone knows what happened. Someone who has been watching. Hunting. Taunting. As they stumble through an adulthood they were never prepared for--and reckon with all the wounds of a generation left behind--the rage that bound them together in the past resurfaces with lethal force.

They broke the rules. And now the rules may end up breaking them.

Customer Reviews

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Birds need to fly free!

In the dark you can do anything and get away with it! At least that is what it feels like as a teen, especially when all the world is asleep, or stuck inside due to Covid. I really do feel for the youth whose lives got disrupted due to the quarantine but I think Sian Gilbert did a great job in portraying an intriguing group of girls, breaking through the restrictions and becoming as free as the birds they chose, escalating their pranks and rebellion against society, until darkness and tragedy strikes. Then fast forwarding till they are adults and must finally face their actions (or not!) as truth is uncovered for what I loved was a totally unexpected ending but fitting for this group of women and the birds they chose. I think this made for a fabulous audiobook, especially with the big cast so that each girl got a voice and how different they each were but very like their birds. The narrators, Kate Walsh, Lucy Rayner, Imogen Church, Marisa Calin, Billie Fulford-Brown, and Ella Lynch really brought this dark tale to life. I am really glad I got the chance to listen to this and so many thanks to Blackstone Publishing for providing a copy! A great story and amazing audiobook!
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