Author Description

A stunningly original work of speculative fiction, Black Glass reveals a first-world city increasingly dominated by surveillance, segregation, and civil unrest. Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living an itinerant life on the outskirts of society, being dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their drug-dealing father. When an explosion literally rips their lives apart, killing their father and leaving a stricken Grace with the belief that her sister is dead, both girls flee separately to the City. The girls have always imagined that beyond the remote badlands ('the Regions') lies another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. A place that one day, they've assured each other, will be their shared destination. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless and alone, this mythical City is a dangerous place - a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people ('undocs') like themselves are confined to life's shady margins. Stylist.