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A Superior Spectre, my debut novel, is out now!
My debut novel, A Superior Spectre, was published this month in Aus/NZ by Peter Bishop Books/Ventura.
‘A book you’ll read in a thrilling rush and then think about for months’ – Emily Maguire
‘This is one of those rare books that penetrates deep into the reader’s most secret self. Read it and hold it close.’ – The Saturday Paper
‘This exquisite novel invites the reader to face the ghosts that haunt the dark corridors of the mind.’ – Justine Hyde, Kill Your Darlings
‘Unique, rich and incredibly sensual… Clever, convincing and unputdownable…’ – Karen Brooks
‘If you care about the future of Australian fiction, look no further.’ – Readings
‘A Superior Spectre [provides] an opportunity to acknowledge what reading does to us and for us.’ – Craig Hildebrand
The blurb:
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental 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 a contented life in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature, her hands and mind kept busy. Contemplating her future and the social conventions that bind her, a secret romantic friendship with the local laird is interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh – an intimidating, sooty city; the place where her mother perished.
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 that bear no resemblance to anything she has ever seen or known…
A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
‘A wild and risky novel, artfully darting between two people separated by centuries and connected by… you’ll see.’ – Steven Amsterdam
‘A beautiful and troubling novel that subtly explores how the past haunts the present.’ – Ceridwen Dovey
‘In this meta-possession, we are all complicit.’ – The Australian
‘Meyer’s full-length debut is a brilliant, deeply unsettling work with the unapologetically feminist rage, passion and awareness of books such as The Natural Way of Things or Margaret Atwood’s seminal The Handmaid’s Tale. Meyer is bold and unafraid in her words, immersing the reader in a vividly imagined and realised world that meets questions of bodily autonomy, madness and disgust head on.’ – Books+Publishing
I hope you will add A Superior Spectre to your Goodreads to-read list! Thank you x
‘A book you’ll read in a thrilling rush and then think about for months’ – Emily Maguire
‘This is one of those rare books that penetrates deep into the reader’s most secret self. Read it and hold it close.’ – The Saturday Paper
‘This exquisite novel invites the reader to face the ghosts that haunt the dark corridors of the mind.’ – Justine Hyde, Kill Your Darlings
‘Unique, rich and incredibly sensual… Clever, convincing and unputdownable…’ – Karen Brooks
‘If you care about the future of Australian fiction, look no further.’ – Readings
‘A Superior Spectre [provides] an opportunity to acknowledge what reading does to us and for us.’ – Craig Hildebrand
The blurb:
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental 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 a contented life in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature, her hands and mind kept busy. Contemplating her future and the social conventions that bind her, a secret romantic friendship with the local laird is interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh – an intimidating, sooty city; the place where her mother perished.
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 that bear no resemblance to anything she has ever seen or known…
A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
‘A wild and risky novel, artfully darting between two people separated by centuries and connected by… you’ll see.’ – Steven Amsterdam
‘A beautiful and troubling novel that subtly explores how the past haunts the present.’ – Ceridwen Dovey
‘In this meta-possession, we are all complicit.’ – The Australian
‘Meyer’s full-length debut is a brilliant, deeply unsettling work with the unapologetically feminist rage, passion and awareness of books such as The Natural Way of Things or Margaret Atwood’s seminal The Handmaid’s Tale. Meyer is bold and unafraid in her words, immersing the reader in a vividly imagined and realised world that meets questions of bodily autonomy, madness and disgust head on.’ – Books+Publishing
I hope you will add A Superior Spectre to your Goodreads to-read list! Thank you x
