Bombshell

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781805462613
  • Weight: 1g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Revolution has never looked so good...

'Heady and reckless and dangerously fun' New York Times
'Sexy, kinetic, dazzling' Chang-rae Lee
'Filled with sex, violence and glamour' Adam Johnson

Corsica, 1993. As a sun-drenched Mediterranean summer heads into full swing, beautiful and brash seventeen-year-old Séverine Guimard is counting down the days until graduation, dreaming of stardom while smoking cigarettes and seducing boys in her class to pass the time. The pampered French-American daughter of a politician, Séverine knows she's destined for bigger things.

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. While her parents try to negotiate for her release, Séverine finds herself beginning to sympathise with the political motivations of her captors, and becoming attracted to the group's charismatic leader, Bruno.

What follows is a summer of passion and terror, careening toward an inevitable, explosive conclusion, as Séverine steps into the biggest role of her life...

Darrow Farr is a Salvadoran-American writer. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 2017-2019 and received an MFA in Creative Writing from The Michener Center at the University of Texas. The Bombshell is her debut novel. She was born and raised outside of Philadelphia, where she now lives with her husband and son.

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