We Shall be Monsters

'An exceptional debut...biting and blissful, with delicious twists that made me gasp' Emma van StraatenIt began with longing. It ended in murder.Eve leaves behind a bleak childhood for the icy but beautiful environs of Newcastle University. Ruthless and clever, she is determined her life will not be ordinary and is drawn into a clique of glamourous and intoxicating English Literature students. Bound together by a passion for the poetry of the Late Romantics and a desire to push life to its extremes, they form an insular group. But when the Byronic ideals of free love and hedonism crack beneath the weight of obsession and lies, the group becomes bound instead by something darker.Several years later when they reunite, old secrets resurface with devastating consequences.