Hypnotic vivid and unputdownable Sally Emersons novel about two erratic adolescents pulsates with lust and black humour Tessa Fire Childs dark heroine is only thirteen when she discovers that she can drive men mad with love and to their death Martin is a reclusive pyromaniac and hes looking for the one woman who can unleash his demonic desires When they meet everything changes Their union is obsessional and devastating Unfurling in a series of compelling diary entries Fire Child masterfully examines the nature of evil and what it means to be human Sally Emersons blazing love story throbs with lust and black humour Newly reissued as part of a series of six titles by Quadrant BooksA taut beautifullyconstructed story moving simply but inexorably towards its cataclysmic ending Sunday TimesA book that can be read as a comedy of modern manners a love story or murder mystery a rare achievement Times Literary ReviewWith the narrative grip of Stephen King Emersons skill is in charging this novel with compulsiveness and foreboding The IndependentTold with power and skill Sally Emerson has a talent for terror of the best kind she understands obsession and hints chillingly at evil Daily TelegraphSally Emerson writes like a dangerous angel Douglas Adams
