FELLOW CREATURES

Perfect for fans of dark academia and toxic friendships, FELLOW CREATURES is Saltburn meets If We Were Villains, with a dash of The Talented Mr Ripley: Obsession and ambition collide in FELLOW CREATURES when outsider Shannon a new student at one of London's most prestigious drama schools becomes dangerously infatuated with a fellow classmate.

Shannon Bell is a nobody. She's the girl who hangs around the edges, the girl whose name you forget. But Shannon has a hidden talent: she can act. When she's accepted into one of London's most selective drama schools, northerner Shannon finds herself uprooted from her old life and thrown into a dazzling yet cut-throat new world. It's there that she meets the beautiful, wealthy and well-connected Victoria, who is everything Shannon has always wanted to be. When Victoria takes a liking to her, the two become inseparable, forming an intense bond. And suddenly, Shannon is no longer a nobody instead she finds herself on the inside, part of Victoria's exclusive group of friends. But Victoria's privilege soon begins to prove its worth winning her countless auditions and opportunities. Poisonous jealousy begins to seep into her relationship with Shannon and the others, driving the group apart, with deadly consequences. Emma was a winner of the 2021 London Writer's Award. She is a queer, neurodivergent, northern writer. She trained as a performer at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and now works as an actor, voiceover artist and freelance copywriter. FELLOW CREATURES is her debut novel.