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Biographical note
Christelle Dabos was born on the CĂŽte dâAzur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. The Mirror Visitor, her debut series, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-TĂ©lĂ©rama First Novel Competition, and every book in the series has proved to be a runaway bestseller. A Winterâs Promise was shortlisted for Waterstonesâ Childrenâs Book Prize in 2019. Hildegarde Serle graduated from Oxford University. After working as a newspaper subeditor in London, she obtained the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation. She is the translator of The Mirror Visitor series."A gripping and disturbing read: sharp, intense and coolly observant of school day relationships and transgressions."
Daily Mail
"A dense fever dream."
Kirkus Reviews
"Christelle Dabos captivates readers of all ages."
Lire
"Imagine all your middle-school nightmares made manifest. Add to that an eerie paranormal aspect that elevates the whole to the maximum level and you have this wildly creative and engaging tale of the middle school from hell."
Reading the West
"Compelling."
The Guardian (on A Winter's Promise)
"A glowing example of the rare thing that is the YA novel in translation."
The Irish Times (on A Winter's Promise)
"An out-of-this-world, tugs-at-all-heart-strings, grips-you-at-every-page piece of writing."
Stylist (on A Winter's Promise)
The new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. At Here, society is highly stratified: the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince.Â
This year things are not at all as they seem. A self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air. A persecuted outsider delivers himself into permanent exile. A tyrannical upperclassman meets his match. A newly-minted prophetess tests her powers. And, behind the scenes, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into the unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all.
With Here, and Only Here, Christelle Dabos gives readers a novel that explores the difficulties of fitting in, and the private, individual choices that make up the sometimes abhorrent, always unpredictable collective.