The Bombshell

by Darrow Farr

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Pub Date 5 Jun 2025 | Archive Date 5 Jun 2025

Atlantic Books | Atlantic Fiction

Literary Fiction

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Description

Corsica, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Séverine Guimard knows in her heart that it's only a matter of time before she'll escape this provincial island for Hollywood's glimmering lights. Until then, she'll spend her days listening to "What is Love" on her Walkman, smoking cigarettes, and riding her bike at dusk along the picturesque roads that wind around her parents' gated villa.

That is until three masked men emerge from an idling car, tear her from her bike, duct tape her mouth and wrists, and take her somewhere hidden from prying eyes...

Séverine's face will be plastered all over newspapers and TV, but not for the reason you think.

How does one kidnapped young woman become the face of a revolution?

Advance Praise

'A lush, cinematic and propulsive novel filled with sex, violence, glamour and a true revolutionary spirit. It's a towering literary achievement' Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner

'An electrifying exploration of personal and political revolution, The Bombshell is a complex, unflinching portrait of youthful transformation and the dangerous allure of fame that announces Darrow Farr as an exciting new voice to watch' Gabriela Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Of Women and Salt

'What a sexy, kinetic and dazzling novel this is, full of lust for life and ideas and the fecund dreams of youth. I was completely seduced by the brio of its unlikely revolutionary hero.... An amazing, unforgettable novel' Chang-rae Lee, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of My Year Abroad

'A lush, cinematic and propulsive novel filled with sex, violence, glamour and a true revolutionary spirit. It's a towering literary achievement' Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner

'An electrifying...