{"product_id":"verge-nadia-attia","title":"Verge (Nadia Attia)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e'Had me gripped from start to finish ... timely, horrifying, and hugely entertaining'\u003cbr\u003eKiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree and The Mercies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Swerves through a fascinating,  fractured landscape of folkloric traditions and  contemporary divisions' \u003cbr\u003eCari Thomas, Sunday Times-bestselling  author of Threadneedle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A vibrant and devastating tale of loss and love ... Characters to treasure' - Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Faebound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRowena has always been a rebel: foul-mouthed, light-fingered,  the last to leave a party. Unfortunately, she's also cursed - marked by  Death since birth. When Rowena's boyfriend and father die in quick  succession her mother sends her North to her gran, the one healer  strong enough to lift the curse before her eighteenth birthday.\u003cbr\u003eHalim is proud, independent and just a few payments away from  owning his truck. Unfortunately, his latest cargo is Rowena.  Every gun-patrolled, hard county border they cross poses a threat  to his future, as do Rowena's increasingly dark visions. \u003cbr\u003eTheir journey takes them across a disunited kingdom where folk  marry the old ways of spells and superstition with reawakened  prejudices. Can Rowena and Halim overcome their  differences and forge an alliance in order to survive?\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNadia Attia is a BFI Network Talent Executive and a published journalist. In 2019 she won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction and was selected for the London Writers Awards. A graduate of the Curtis Brown novel-writing course, Nadia has been published in Spread the Word's City of Stories anthology, Star Songs and Luna Station Quarterly. Verge is her first novel.  @nadia_land_\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B Format Paperback, Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63613026632029,"sku":"K097066496","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/242412-9706649600001A.jpg?v=1771996726","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/verge-nadia-attia","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}