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    The Burning

    Written by Laura Bates

    Narrated by Heather Long and Susie Riddell

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    Fire is like a rumour. You might think you’ve extinguished it but one creeping, red tendril, one single wisp of smoke is enough to let it leap back into life again. Especially if someone is watching, waiting to fan the flames ...
     
    New school.
    Tick.
    New town.
    Tick.
    New surname.
    Tick.
    Social media profiles?
    Erased.
     
    There’s nothing to trace Anna back to her old life. Nothing to link her to the ‘incident’.
     
    At least that’s what she thinks … until the whispers start up again. As time begins to run out on her secrets, Anna finds herself irresistibly drawn to the tale of Maggie, a local girl accused of witchcraft centuries earlier. A girl whose story has terrifying parallels to Anna’s own…

    The compelling YA debut from Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and bestselling author of Girl Up.

    PRAISE FOR LAURA BATES:

    ‘One of the first women to harness the power of social media to fight sexism and misogyny and give millions of young women a voice.' Grazia
     ‘Mature, eloquent and passionate, Bates is in many ways the voice of her generation.’ Huffington Post

    PRAISE FOR GIRL UP:
     ‘A bracing love letter to today's teenage girls’ – Sunday Times
    'Essential reading for young women and girls’ –  Morning Star Online
    'This no-nonsense guide to being a girl in 2016 is one all teen girls should read’ – Red magazine
    'If you have a daughter or a niece or a younger sister or a goddaughter, buy it for them now' --The Pool

    PRAISE FOR EVERYDAY SEXISM:
    ‘This is an important book’ –Independent
    ‘A potent reminder of how far feminism has come and how far it has to go’ - Kirkus Reviews
    'A game-changing book, a must-read for every woman' –Cosmopolitan
     'Funny and clever' - Telegraph
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateFeb 21, 2019
    ISBN9781471183652
    Author

    Laura Bates

    Laura Bates is a Sunday Times bestselling author and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality. Her non-fiction books include Everyday Sexism, Girl Up, Misogynation, Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women. She writes regularly for The Guardian and the Telegraph, among other publications, and won a British Press Award in 2015. Laura works closely with organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality. She was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality and has been named a woman of the year by Cosmopolitan, Red and The Sunday Times. 

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    • 5/5
      This book does exactly what the author intends. It takes a mistake by a fourteen year old girl, made when she gives in to her boyfriend's demands and sends him a photo of her breasts, and lets it become a raging online fire, one that can't be outrun. That's what Anna and her mom try to do when they move from England to Scotland. At first Anna thinks things will be okay, especially when she starts to make two new friends, but it's not long before someone at her new school learns about the picture...and worse. Laura Bates blends Anna's situation with the painful life of Maggie, a fisherman's daughter who lived 400 years before, who after being sexually assaulted and impregnated by a nobleman's son, was tried for witchcraft. The mixing of the two girls' experiences is superbly done. This is a book that deserves not only to be in most libraries, but should be read and discussed in classes as well because it has a powerful message.
    • 4/5
      A powerful book highly recommended for girls of 12-13 and up.The novel blends two threads of the present day story of Anna and her problems with cyber-bullying along with the 1650s narrative about a woman accused of witchcraft after she gets pregnant. This historical narrative highlights how in some ways, nothing has changed - women have been subjugated by men for centuries and men are still getting away with it whilst the victim is blamed.I also particularly appreciated a very positive portrayal of a wheelchair user whose comments about being seen as a person not as a wheelchair absolutely rang true.