The Incandescent

<p><b><i>'</i></b><b>'A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth. Warm-hearted, terrifying and clever . . . an unmissable read' </b>Tasha Suri, author of <i>The Jasmine Throne</i><br><br><b><i>A Deadly Education </i>meets <i>Rivers of London</i> in this captivating contemporary fantasy from <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.</b><br><br>Dr. Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.<br><br>Walden is good at her job - no, Walden is <i>great </i>at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. But it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from, is herself . . . <br><br><b>'The grown-up answer to the magical boarding school tale . . . Fantastic in every sense of the word'</b><br>Freya Marske, author of <i>A Marvellous Light</i><br><br><b>'An absolute flex of a book, empathetic and passionate and deeply thoughtful. Above all, Tesh will make you care: about place, self, and the brave, impulsive, vulnerable, curious, incandescent young lives that are our future. A gorgeous evocation of what it means to have a calling'</b> <br>Shelley Parker-Chan, author of <i>She Who Became the Sun</i></p>