Monster - Couverture souple

At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle shed face. Until her brothers disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the school over Christmas with Bathorys assorted misfits.

As a blizzard rages outside, strange things are afoot in the schools hallways, and legends of the mysterious Beast of Bathory a big cat rumoured to room the moors outside the school run wild.

Yet when the girls Matron goes missing its clear that something altogether darker is to blame and that theyll have to stick together if they hope to survive.

Praise for C J Skuse

'CJ does it again, with a boarding school story packed with tension...Nobody captures the darkness of teenage nightmares quite like CJ Skuse.' - Sophia Bennett, author of The Look

'Fiendishly dark, with a sense of humour. CJ Skuse always inspires deep author envy' - Keren David, YA Book Prize Nominee on Monster

Its so good, Id recommend it to people I dont like Kevin Brooks on Pretty Bad Things

A rip roaring story Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian on Rockoholic

sharp, funny and knowing The Telegraph on Rockoholic

The tension and the comedy crack along with a heart-warming hilarity that is impossible to resist.

C.J. SKUSE is the author of the Young Adult novels PRETTY BAD THINGS, ROCKOHOLIC and DEAD ROMANTIC (Chicken House) and MONSTER (Mira Ink). She was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She has First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and, aside from writing novels, works as a freelance children's fiction consultant and lectures in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University. C.J. is currently working on her second novel for Mira Ink. C.J. loves Masterchef, Gummy Bears and murder sites. She hates carnivals, hard-boiled eggs and coughing. The movies Titanic, My Best Friend's Wedding and Ruby Sparks were all probably based on her ideas; she just didn't get to write them down in time. Before she dies, she would like to go to Japan, try clay-pigeon shooting and have Ryan Gosling present her with the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.