Award-winning author Mary Watson will be launching her new book, The Wren Hunt, in Cape Town in April.

Watson will be in town from 9–13 April.

The Wren Hunt is part thriller, part love story: a captivating Young Adult novel about a girl caught in a battle between two ancient magics.

About the book

Every year on St Stephen’s Day, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are judges – a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur – their sworn enemy – the game would be up.

This year, the tension between judges and augurs is at breaking point. Wren’s survival, and that of her family, depends on her becoming a spy in the midst of these boys she fears most and using her talent, her magic, to steal from them the only thing that can restore her family’s former power for good. But Wren’s talent comes with a price. The more she uses it, the more she loses her grip on reality …

Click on the link above for more about the book!

Watson is from Cape Town and now lives on the West Coast of Ireland with her husband and three young children. She won The Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006, and is the author of a short story collection, Moss (Kwela, 2004), and the novel The Cutting Room (Penguin South Africa, 2013).

 

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