Fledgling

The Octavia Butler novel for our times THE ATLANTIC

My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it JUNOT DIAZ

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.

A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.

As Shori heals, she realises that she isn't like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.

To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.

PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched NEW YORKER

Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same GLORIA STEINEM

Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision GUARDIAN

One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century JUNOT DIAZ

Octavia Butler was a visionary VIOLA DAVIS

Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human NEW YORK TIMES