![]() ![]() This year, the tension between judges and augurs is at breaking point. ![]() If they knew she was an augur – their sworn enemy – the game would be up. Her pursuers are judges – a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. ![]() It was here that the first seeds of The Wren Hunt were planted.Įvery year on St Stephen’s Day, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Of magic worlds and dystopias, zombies and vampires, queens and assassins while (almost) everyone around me slept. When my youngest child was born, I found reading YA books kept me awake during the long nights. She moved to Galway, Ireland, in 2008 and fell in love with Young Adult fiction after the birth of her first child:Īfter The Cutting Room, I knew I wanted to write a fantasy book. Watson won the Caine Prize in 2006 for her short story ‘Jungfrau’. Her first book, a collection of connected short stories title Moss, was published by Kwela in 2004, and her second, The Cutting Room, was published by Penguin South Africa in 2013. Mary Watson’s new novel The Wren Hunt will be published by Bloomsbury in February 2018. ![]()
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