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From the bestselling author of She Started It comes an unsettling, propulsive thriller where home is not a sanctuary, isolation looms, and the future has evaporated. All that's left is fear, frustration, and an anger that won't go away.

Meet Crow, Goldfinch, Starling, Wren, and Cuckoo--five girls who will never tell you their real names. They're the brightest students at an underfunded, inner-city Bristol school, pushing toward opportunity despite the odds stacked against them. They believe they're on the cusp of something better ... until the world abruptly shuts down. Exams are cancelled, their plans collapse, and the future dissolves into a fog of uncertainty.

With long nights, a city under curfew, and nothing left to lose, the girls slip into a world of dark possibility. Each illicit outing becomes its own kind of dangerous magic. Their choices spiral--from reckless to ruthless--and by the end of a strange, suspended summer, more than one person will be dead.

Seven years later, the survivors have not spoken since. But someone knows what happened. Someone who has been watching. Hunting. Taunting. As they stumble through an adulthood they were never prepared for--and reckon with all the wounds of a generation left behind--the rage that bound them together in the past resurfaces with lethal force.

They broke the rules. And now the rules may end up breaking them.

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The Five of Us is at once a story of vengeance, a coming-of-age novel, and an exploration of how seductive power can be once you realize you have it. A tense, dark gem of a thriller.” --Tracy Sierra, author of Nightwatching

“The suspense burns like a slow fuse until it explodes with one shocking twist after another.” --Brian Freeman, New York Times bestselling author of Photograph

The Five of Us is a brilliantly conceived story of rivalry, vengeance, and the terrible secrets that can lurk within even the closest of friendships. With gripping suspense, Gilbert imagines the lockdown world of Cuckoo, Wren, Goldie, Starling, and Crow with great imagination and twists galore. An unputdownable parable for our hypervigilant age.” --Bruce Holsinger, author of The Gifted School and Culpability

“Wildly original and deliciously dark.” --Elka Ray, author of A Friend Indeed

“Eerie, eye-opening, and simmering with tension, The Five of Us is The Secret History for the lockdown generation. It’s Sian Gilbert’s most compelling novel yet—a haunting, unforgettable read.” --Kelly and Kristina Mancaruso, authors of Rumoured

“Gilbert’s coming-of-age tale with deeply explored themes of friendship takes a deadly twist.” --Booklist

“At last: dark academia for the rest of us. Gilbert brilliantly reimagines The Secret History if the murderers lived in council flats instead of ivy-covered dormitories. Moody, poetic, and impossibly clever, The Five of Us is exactly the kind of novel we need right now—a thrilling feast for anyone who longs to devour the rich.” --V. A. Vazquez, author of The Death Row Club

The Five Of Us is a brilliantly-conceived story of rivalry, vengeance & the terrible secrets that can lurk within even the closest of friendships. With gripping suspense Gilbert imagines the lock-down world of Cuckoo, Wren, Goldie, Starling & Crow with great imagination & twists galore. An unputdownable parable for our hyper-vigilant age. --Bruce Holsinger, author of Culpability, an Oprah’s Book Club pick

About the Author

Sian Gilbert is the author of She Started It. She was born in Bristol, UK, and studied history at the University of Warwick, before teaching at a comprehensive school in Birmingham for almost five years. She now lives in Cambridge with her partner.

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