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**Sequel to the** **Sunday Times** **bestselling** **and Lodestar award-** **nominated** **A Deadly Education**
‘The dark school of magic I have been waiting for’ Katherine Arden, author of *The Bear and the Nightingale*
‘Fantasy that delights on every level’ Stephanie Garber, author of *Caraval*
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**Return to the Scholomance – and face an even deadlier graduation – in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, *Sunday Times* bestselling *A Deadly Education*.**
The dark school of magic has always done its best to devour its students, but now that El has reached her final year — and somehow won herself a handful of allies along the way — it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving . . .
For her.
As the savagery of the school ramps up, El is determined that she will not give in; not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. But as the spectre of graduation looms — the deadly final ritual that leaves few students alive — if she and her allies are to make it out, El will need to realise that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules.
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Wry, witty, endlessly inventive, and mordantly funny — yet with a true depth and fierce justice at its heart — this enchanting novel reminds us that there are far more important things than mere survival.