The "brides" in her story are Lil and Kizzy, twin sisters from a band of Transylvanian travellers, who are brutally kidnapped on the eve of their 17th birthday and enslaved in the castle of the cruel Boyar Valcar. It takes a bold author to pick up where Stoker left off, but Hargrave confidently claims the narrative for her own.
In Stoker's version, they are seductive vampire "sisters" who reside with the Count in his castle in Transylvania, repulsed by sunlight, entrancing men with their beauty and charm.
The Deathless Girls tells the story of Dracula's brides, who are mentioned in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel but never individually named, and their origins are left unexplained. For her fourth novel, however, she leaves her primary school fans behind and plunges into the realms of teenage vampire fiction. The Girl of Ink & Stars (2016), published when she was 26 and nominated for the Carnegie, is now a fixture on school reading lists. 'Kiran Millwood Hargrave's lyrical novels have made her the darling of children's literary fiction. “ The Deathless Girls is exquisitely written, as we have come to expect from Millwood Hargrave, but it is also riveting, intoxicating, and utterly unputdownable.” – Louise O’Neill They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate… But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. On the eve of her divining, the day she’ll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community.įorced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn’t understand. They say the thirst of blood is like a madness – they must sate it. Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic – this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut.
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