Black Glass
a novel
Meg Mundell
‘Black Glass presents a dark urban dystopian future of mass surveillance and government control, filled with corruption and morality gone wrong … Black Glass contains a mix of writing styles, adding to the big brother style of the book … The tension builds right until the end.’
Andrew Wrathall, Bookseller & Publisher
Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.
The girls had always imagined that beyond the remote regions lay another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless, and alone, the city is a dangerous place — a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people like themselves are confined to life’s shady margins. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other — or just to survive.
Narrated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Black Glass is the work of an exceptional new talent.
Reviews
‘Black Glass is a convincing piece of probable dystopia, ingeniously designed to save some of its best blows for the end. And the survival skills and no-nonsense voice of Tally are a pleasure to follow.’
Nicholas Reid , Sunday Star Times
‘In her brilliant debut novel, Mundell envisages a dark, sinister city of the not-too-distant future where massive surveillance and controls are used to crush citizens into submission.’
Carlene Ellwood, The Mercury
» All reviews for this title‘Meg Mundell creates an eerie vision of an Australian city (it sounds a lot like what once was Melbourne) in her chilling debut novel, where we follow the lives of the two itinerant sisters.’
Julia Ross, Courier Mail
