Aurora – Seraphina Madsen

‘Imagine a dark brew concocted by Dorothy Allison and Angela Carter; it would seduce and bewitch just like this.’ 

Heidi James 

‘A phantasmagorical, arcane love letter to The Master and Margarita’ 

Stu Hennigan 

The second novel by the author of the acclaimed Dodge and Burn (Dodo Ink, 2016) is surreal, speculative, read-in-one-sitting, feminist literary fiction inspired by The Master and Margarita and narrated by a djinn who is obsessed with the young American woman who has released him from a bottle.

“With sorcery, as everyone knows, there is no stopping it.”

Born into Evangelical trailer trash poverty, Aurora finds her way into an elite prep school where she’s drawn into a circle of girls who form a Surrealist coven. Hell-bent on tapping into magic to subvert and transform reality, they encounter forces they should have left alone… A surreal adventure, an infernal fairy-tale, Aurora is a stunning novel that explores witchcraft from a radical new angle.