The Unworthy

Charlotte says about The Unworthy:
"If The Handmaid’s Tale and I Who Have Never Known Men had a disturbing younger sister, it would be this book. When it comes to dystopian worlds and the power imbalances they often explore in fiction, there’s nothing better than to access that world through diary entries, viewing it straight through the naive eyes of someone living through it. The Unworthy has mastered this; words crossed out and half finished, personal confessions and information dropped on us through the clumsiness of someone in a panic make this an incredibly gripping but harrowing read. I loved it!"

A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh.

In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.

Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.

Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her presence brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness.