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71-74 North Street, East Sussex, Brighton

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Meet Angela Meyer, author of A Superior Spectre (‘lyrical, literary and visceral’ – Sydney Morning Herald)

A Superior Spectre is part historical, part dystopian feminist fiction. Angela is bisexual and the book engages boldly with gender questions, as well as with the surveillance stateand futuristic technology that is – frighteningly – almost with us today.

"A brilliant, deeply unsettling work.” Books + Publishing

Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with shame, he runs away to a remote part of Scotland with a piece of beta tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only use it three times, Jeff – self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating – ignores this advice.

In the late 1860s, Leonora lives in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature. Contemplating the social conventions that bind her, her contented life and a secret romantic friendship with the local laird are interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh. But Leonora’s ability to embrace her new life is shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes, and strange visions.

A Superior Spectre is a novel about curiosity, entitlement and manipulation. It reminds us that the scariest ghosts aren’t the ones that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.

Angela Meyer, Mslexia Novella award winner and author of A Superior Spectre, will be at Waterstones Brighton on Tuesday 13th August to launch her new book.

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Waterstones
71-74 North Street Brighton, BN1 1ZA

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Advert Ref: #2852146
Posted: 13 Aug '19
Visits: 22