Superior Spectre
Angela Meyer
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Saltire First Book of the Year, 2019: SHORTLISTED
MUD Literary Prize for Best Debut Fiction
Adult Book of the Year, Small Press Australian Book Industry Awards
Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Edinburgh International Book Festival, First Novel Award
"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's Joan Smokes won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Competition in 2019. Her short fiction has been widely published, including in Best Australian Stories, Island, The Big Issue, The Australian, The Lifted Brow and Killings. By day she works as a publisher for Echo Publishing, an Australian imprint of Bonnier Books UK, and in this role has discovered and developed a range of award-winning, globally published and bestselling talent, including global number one bestselling author Heather Morris. A Superior Spectre, Angela's debut novel, is already shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards.
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