GIRLS OF LITTLE HOPE

279pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2023

Novel set in a small American town in 1996. Three fifteen-year-old girls go into the woods - and only two of them come back, covered in blood and with no memory of what happened. 

"Sharp as a DIY-piercing, with a fierce punk heart - I loved the hell out of this," Lauren Beukes, author of Broken Monsters

"A dark, strange, and joyful book about sticking with your best friends in the face of a monstrous world." Sam Humphries, comic book writer

Sam Beckbessinger is the author of Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grownup. She was one of the writers on Realm and Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire serialised novel. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and writes for children's TV.

Writer and book cover designer Dale Halvorsen is the co-creator of the Vertigo original horror series Survivors’ Club together with Lauren Beukes and artist Ryan Kelly. He lives in Cape Town.