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Conversion Katherine Howe

Conversion By Katherine Howe

Conversion by Katherine Howe


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Summary

A brilliant and eerie thriller based on true events from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Lost Book Of Salem

Conversion Summary

Conversion by Katherine Howe

Colleen is feeling the heat. It's her final year of school, and university applications and deciphering boys' texts have turned life into a pressure cooker. Colleen and her friends are expected to somehow keep it all together - until they can't.

The first victim is gorgeous, popular Clara who starts having loud and uncontrollable tics while her horrified classmates look on. More students follow suit with new symptoms: seizures, body vibrations, violent coughing fits, and hair loss. The media descends as school officials, angry parents and health experts scramble to find something, or someone, to blame. But there is one thing no one has factored in: the school's town was once Salem Village, the site of a similarly bizarre epidemic among teenage girls three hundred years earlier - and it seems history is about to repeat itself.

Conversion Reviews

'Perhaps the best thing about the book is its tense, paranoid atmosphere; the way it evokes the everyday pressure of being an ambitious, emotionally vulnerable teen, while simultaneously showing just how easily this pressure can twist into something monstrous.' * Telegraph, Best YA Books 2015 *
'A superbly crafted, multi-layered thriller, that will resonate with anyone who has had to study The Crucible as a set text.' * Independent, Best YA Books of 2015 *
'Sensational' * The Tablet *
'...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history. Particularly in situations of powerlessness, Conversion shows, stress can reveal itself in mysterious ways. * New York Times *
'[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green ... there's no one better to bewitch teens and adults alike with a modern tale of gripping panic.' * USA Today *
'Richly drawn characters and period language ... a deliberate build-up of escalating tension and suspense.' * Kirkus Reviews *
'Howe's writing is suspenseful and effortlessly draws the reader in.' * VOYA, starred review *
'Engrossing and thought-provoking.' * Boston Globe *
'Conversion melds the best bits of private school drama (think Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep) with the mystique of the supernatural. Pick it up this fall for a good old-fashioned mystery and maybe even a flashback to your high school years (for better or for worse). Be prepared to love this bewitching page-turner!' * Christian Science Monitor *
'A simmering blend of relatable high-school drama with a persistent pinprick of unearthliness in the background.' * Booklist *
'A chilling guessing game of a novel that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike.' * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
'Howe skillfully blends a modern medical mystery based on real events with the historical Salem Witch panic ... will keep readers guessing until the final reveal.' * School Library Journal *

About Katherine Howe

Katherine Howe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, as well as The House of Velvet and Glass. She is widely considered an expert on American colonial life and the Salem Witch Trials, having written both as an academic and a novelist on the subject. She is a lecturer in American Studies at Cornell University. She is also a direct descendant of three of the women accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, one who was hanged and two who survived. Her books have been published around the world in 23 languages to date.

Additional information

GOR006637342
9781780747729
1780747721
Conversion by Katherine Howe
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oneworld Publications
2015-06-04
432
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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