Here, and Only Here
by Christelle Dabos
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Pub Date 26 Oct 2023 | Archive Date 2 Nov 2023
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Description
Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year.
At Here, society is highly stratified: the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year—as all other years—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 – author of the international sensation The Mirror Visitor Quartet – gives readers an intriguing and penetrating novel that explores the difficulties of fitting in, and the private, individual choices that make up the sometimes abhorrent, always unpredictable collective.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781787704923 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Peter T, Educator
School angst, horror of the first day and everyday, all types of lost soul from the catty elite to the unseen and the supply teacher, the bullied, the hopeful, the supportive, the couldn’t care and the cares too much, the rules and the rules you are never told about. You would think from that list this book would be the last thing you want to read. But Christelle Dabos has taken all this and produce a book that is darkly funny and surprisingly thought provoking. Thank you to Europa Editions and NetGalley for the ARC. The views expressed are all mine, freely given.
Stephen R, Educator
Following on from the Mirror Visitor Quartet could never be an easy path for Christelle Dabos- a fantasy world that was so fully structured and hypnotic that it gained a huge following . Here, and Only Here certainly brings us to the here and now and the life of students making the transition from primary and beyond.
The challenges, tribulations, rituals, clans, humiliations are all found in this tale focused around a group,of teenagers from different year groups- each with their own tale to tell whilst also observed by a group of “onlookers” intent on causing moments of chaos.
This is a curiously abstract read- as it’s some times not fully clear how’s to distinguish the intent ,the emotions, the intentions of characters or is that just an indication of adolescence in all its abstract pain and beauty .
From the start it is clear that this is not going to be an easy journey- in fact it’s painful to read - the inner turmoil is palpable - in fact at certain points the book feels bleak but then the story tightens and pulls us forward .. will lessons be learned, will the traditions and myths of rules and tribes continue or collapse , will the key characters survive the year? Christelle Dabos has created another world- one that we all encounter or for many readers will be living through . This is a book that needs a dialogue as each reader is sure to feel different emotions reading it based upon their own secondary education experiences.
Dark, thought - provoking , beguiling .
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