Lola Galley is used to doing things she doesn't want. She certainly doesn't want to be assigned the case of Richard Ellaway, the man who, under a cold full moon, mutilated a good friend of hers. But being a bareback, what she wants and what she gets are seldom the same. For those born feet-first, life is comfortable, and one night a month they lock themselves in a secure room to fur up in peace. Barebacks, trapped in their human skin and drafted at eighteen into the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity, don't have it so easy. A full moon means patrolling the silent night in search of transformed citizens breaking the curfew. The rest of the month, Dorla agents mop up the after-effects of the trespasses, the fights and the maulings. Resignedly, she takes the case - but before Ellaway can be tried, her maimed friend is murdered. Lola wants justice. She'll settle for the truth. But in a divided world, asking for the truth may bring answers that you don't want to hear.
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Bareback is Kit Whitfield's first novel. She lives in London.
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A Literary Thrilled with Teeth,
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If this is literature, then its more exciting than I'm used to; and if its a thriller, then its one of the best-written books in the genre that I've come across in a while. In Bareback (the UK title for Benighted), Kit Whitfield gives us a whole new world, a world that emerges fully formed from the author's imagination. Whitfield has clearly spent a lot of time getting to grips with the world she has created, thinking through the intricacies of how our own world can be so plausibly turned inside out. The mythology and the science and the prejudice are all packed tight together and seep into the reader slowly, wonderfully - leaving you ready, by the end of the book, to see what other adventures this world can hold.
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I am not a writer I am a reader so simply put. . . I LOVED THIS BOOK
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