World Book Day: 3 Books Written By Women You Need To Know

Written by Celeste Ng, the book was voted in the United States one of the best books of 2017 by vehicles such as Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian and The Washington Post. The narrative addresses the relationship between two different families in a utopian context, in a city whose implicit philosophy is that “everything can and must be programmed, and with that avoiding the inappropriate, the unpleasant and the disastrous”. The book was so successful that it became an original Hulu series.

The author Delia Owens tells the story of Kya Clark, a woman known as the “swamp girl.” Upon being abandoned by her mother and maintaining abusive relationships with an alcoholic husband and an aggressive father, Kya decides to leave the house and goes to live alone in a swamp region. However, a death changes the whole context of her story and after that, two young people will get to know her for real.

Karen M. McManus manages, in this book, to mix fiction, suspense and mystery. It tells the story of Simon’s death and the doubts she left between four friends of Bayview. They now need to participate in a game of truth or consequence, in which the challenges become more and more dangerous as time goes by. Not even the police can help. Simon’s gone, but someone’s determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And this time, there’s a whole new set of rules.