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The Institute
Five students stepped in front of a train. Only one came back. But what happened on the platform was just the beginning.
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About The Book
The Sanctuary meets Shutter Island in this chilling speculative thriller from the acclaimed author of The Sisterhood.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.
SOME FLY TO THEIR DEATHS.
A group of students step off a platform into the path of an oncoming train.
Only Billie survives.
She remembers nothing.
But she knows they weren’t suicidal.
At the secretive Arbor Institute, Billie is diagnosed with ‘flock phenomena’: a terrifying impulse to self-destruct with the group.
If it happens again, she’ll die.
Cut off from the world, watched at every turn, Billie begins to understand the truth:
The Institute isn’t trying to cure her.
It’s trying to contain her.
But Billie isn’t prey.
She’s the threat.
‘Brilliantly executed, alarming, deeply disturbing and worryingly believable!’ Trevor Wood, author of The Inside Man
‘Thoughtful and compelling… Moving and memorable’ Jo Furniss, author of Dead Mile
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.
SOME FLY TO THEIR DEATHS.
A group of students step off a platform into the path of an oncoming train.
Only Billie survives.
She remembers nothing.
But she knows they weren’t suicidal.
At the secretive Arbor Institute, Billie is diagnosed with ‘flock phenomena’: a terrifying impulse to self-destruct with the group.
If it happens again, she’ll die.
Cut off from the world, watched at every turn, Billie begins to understand the truth:
The Institute isn’t trying to cure her.
It’s trying to contain her.
But Billie isn’t prey.
She’s the threat.
‘Brilliantly executed, alarming, deeply disturbing and worryingly believable!’ Trevor Wood, author of The Inside Man
‘Thoughtful and compelling… Moving and memorable’ Jo Furniss, author of Dead Mile
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (February 16, 2027)
- Length: 384 pages
- ISBN13: 9781398519121
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Praise for The Institute:
‘Like all the best speculative fiction, takes a real-world problem and pushes it to an inevitable and terrifying extreme… Brilliantly executed, alarming, deeply disturbing and worryingly believable!’ Trevor Wood, author of The Inside Man
‘Both thoughtful and compelling, this is a thriller that will leave you thinking long after the last page… Moving and memorable’ Jo Furniss, author of Dead Mile
‘A clever and disturbing thriller for fans of Stephen King’ The Oxford Bookworm
Praise for Katherine Bradley, writing as Kate Bradley:
‘Addictive, original and brilliantly twisty’ T. M. Logan
‘Heart-stopping’ David Nicholls
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