'Melinda Salisbury is a lush, magical writer - who isn't afraid of the dark. Her Dark Wings captures the glory of having a real best friend, and the mythic pain of being betrayed by one' RAINBOW ROWELL ----- 'Salisbury's voice sings at the crossroads of classical and urgently modern . . . Her storytelling is tight and focused and moves at a breathless pace: as all good myth-making should . . . strange, elegant and chilling: I devoured it' SARAH MARIA GRIFFIN ----- 'Infused with myth, Her Dark Wings is darkly enchanting, bold and unexpected. I loved experiencing this richly imagined world through the eyes of such a well-drawn, nuanced heroine' MARY WATSON ----- 'Raw emotion; searing prose and a darkly imagined world' NON PRATT ----- 'A skilled contemporary reimagining full of friendship and fury' DEIRDRE SULLIVAN Melinda Salisbury is the three-time Carnegie Medal-nominated author of the Sin Eater's Daughter series, the State of Sorrow duology, and bestselling YA horror novel Hold Back the Tide, as well as non-fiction title, The Way Back Almanac. Her books have been published in 14 countries to date and have been shortlisted for numerous national and international awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and the Edgar Awards in the United States. Melinda lives by the sea in the south of England and is a keen wildlife photographer.