A gripping and original exploration of sisterhood and identity
Vogue
If The Handmaid’s Tale and the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a baby, the result would probably look something like this feminist sci-fi thriller
Harper's Bazaar
Netflix, please make this into a series
Prima
Long fascinated by the idea of virgin birth, Sara Flannery Murphy ... Read morehas used the subject to craft her own chilling, page-turning speculative thriller
Living Magazine
A masterpiece of controlled tension and revelation
Daily Mail
A genre-defying, thought-provoking thriller that is impossible to put down. Girl One is an engaging, timely exploration of identity and the power women possess when they band together
Kami Garcia, author of 'Beautiful Creatures' The novel may remind many of [The Handmaid’s Tale], which is also set in a dystopian future and tackles issues of reproduction for women
Mail Online
A fantastic tale of a super-powered girl desperately searching for her missing mother
Take a Break
A highly imaginative and enjoyable novel that looks at motherhood, love and power, in a highly suspenseful and thrilling setting
Good Reading Magazine
I was swept away by this potent feminist speculative literary thriller. Part road trip and part detective story, with a tender queer love story at its heart, a cinematic scope, gothic sensibilities and a wounded rage thrumming under the surface, Girl One will blaze a path through your reading this summer
Jane Healey, author of 'The Animals at Lockwood Manor' Girl One flares into the world with genetic possibilities and a bold remaking of history. A speculative feminist thriller of the highest order, Girl One is fresh, boundless and thought-provoking. Certain books and characters linger long after the final page. Josephine Morrow and her extraordinary journey is one you won’t soon forget
Mindy Mejia, author of 'Everything You Want Me To Be' and 'Strike Me Down' Sara Flannery Murphy’s Girl One is both a heart-pounding, binge-worthy thriller and a riveting exploration of creation, consent, and the power of sisterhood
Layne Fargo, author of 'They Never Learn' With a plot that races along, this is an imaginative and seductive supernatural novel that examines love, loss and terrifying obsession
Praise for 'The Possessions'
Daily Mail
Murphy unspools a creepingly clever ghost story that encompasses thriller, horror and literary fiction with seductive swagger … You’re delivered into an entirely compelling world with all the intoxicating imagination and white-knuckle plotting of high-Victorian sensation fiction … A simmering gothic joy
Praise for 'The Possessions'
Guardian
As well as being a supernatural tale, brilliantly evoking a time not quite our own but almost, The Possessions is a meditation on love, obsession and grief. In an almost Kafka-esque world, Sara Flannery Murphy’s subtle, spare and poised writing creates a gripping sense of threat that makes the book compelling reading
Praise for 'The Possessions', Lucy Jago A masterful blend of sci-fi, thriller and feminism in this tale of power and sisterhood
Woman's Own
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