The Dark Light

by Julia Bell

Overview

'Ten minutes to midnight!' Jonathan shouts over the sound of the blazing fire. Sparks rise into the sky and mingle with the stars. 'Only ten minutes!' Bevins says, falling down on his knees. 'So it begins.'

Rebekah has lived on the island her whole life, and it's only now that she's starting to wonder what she might experience outside her strict religious community. Alex has been sent to the island to escape her dark past, and through her eyes it's a dark and sinister place. Thrown together by chance, Rebekah and Alex strike up an unlikely friendship and it's together that they attempt to break free of their worlds and make a world of their own. But when a kiss between the girls is witnessed by an islander there is no escape they can make - the Rapture is coming for them all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447283041
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	07/16/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	577 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Julia Bell is the author of two novels for YA: Massive and Dirty Work both published in the UK and US and translated into many foreign languages. She is also the co-editor of the bestselling The Creative Writing Coursebook, which she wrote and compiled while teaching at UEA. She is an alumni of the UEA Creative Writing MA and has put her writing on hold for the last ten years in order to work as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, where she runs a successful MA programme. She is the founder and director of the Writers' Hub website and the annual anthology The Mechanics' Institute Review.
Julia Bell is a writer and Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London where she is the Course Director of the Creative Writing MA. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Dark Light, the co editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook as well as three volumes of short stories. She also takes photographs, writes poetry, short stories, occasional essays and journalism. She divides her time between London and Berlin.

Editorial Reviews

"Religious fanaticism and Gothic horror go together like a horse and carriage, and when you throw an island into the equation things can only get better. . . . a blend of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and The Wicker Man that is as savage as it is suspenseful." —Independent

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