![]() ![]() I’m going to quote Jennie Melamed at this point in my review, because I think her words are vitally important to how the reader approaches this novel. Girls from a very young age are primed for a world where their opinions are not worth anything and they must, at all times, be willing to accept the ‘shalt nots’, the laws of the ancestors. The premise of Gather the Daughters is based around an isolated island cult, where the menfolk reign supreme. I can honestly say I have never read anything quite like it…. As I have never read either of these, I decided the time was now right to jump in and introduce myself to this genre. It has been compared to many books, including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Emma Cline’s The Girls, books recently termed #CULTLit. I have had a copy of this novel for some time now, but for some reason the subject matter kept me from picking it up. Just published by Tinder Press, it is described as ‘dark and energetic, compulsively readable’. Gather The Daughters is the debut novel from Jennie Melamed. ‘EVERY SUMMER, THE GIRLS RUN WILD. THEY KNOW IT COULD BE THEIR LAST’. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview. ![]()
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