Georgie-May Tearle writes with a style and confidence far beyond her age and has a natural talent for creating instantly memorable characters and constructing highly engaging tales.

Her stories are written with passion and humour from a decidedly modern female perspective.

“Challenging and often defying genre classification, Shadows In Darkness is an exceptional debut from an extremely promising young writer”

Shadows In Darkness is Georgie-May Tearle’s critically acclaimed debut book of short stories.

Ranging in style from erotic supernatural to dark fantasy, Shadows In Darkness has proven to be a great success with both readers and reviewers.

Anrea Failrly

The writer has a clear confidence in her writing abilities. She speaks from a woman's perspective that is sleek and sexy. From the women that are fighters to those that are les determined to stand out. Is is a writing style that is like marmite, but then I do love it on toast. I find it hard to believe that this is the first book from this writer. A young martina Cole. (***** Stars).

Amanda

I read this book thinking that it would be another debut from a young writer that infact cannot write. I am not an easily pleased reader but I can not give this book any less than a five star rating. It has been perfectly put together and for a first from such a young writer I really am impressed. I was sincerely proved wrong by my initial reaction when first picking up the book. The cover is spooky and works perfectly with the content. The characters are all realistic and unbelievably fictional. I really do look forward to her next book, I will be the first to buy a copy!

Jenni Adams

This book will not take you long to read as you won't be able to put it down. Georgie-May Tearle has produced a great piece, I love her style of writing and the down to earth characters who are not film stars or fancifull artists but gritty, realistic, people as well as the cold, weak women. The character range is outstanding! I cannot wait for her next offering!

Carol Naylor

Georgie-May Tearle touches upon a number of themes in this sexually explicit and adult short story selection dominated by sex, rape, abuse and murder with the ever-present underworld representing the shadows of darkness of a young, female protagonist striving for happiness and success.

Unfortunately this does not happen.

The female "voice" is fairly constant throughout each of the stories although sometimes she is a single woman still reliant on the security of her parents. At other times she is a married woman abused by her husband or partner, fighting for her survival, trying to make sense of a disturbing world.

The style is modern and reminiscent of the mock Gothic style such as Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey or Sleepy Hollow where you might recollect Johnny Depp and the headless horseman. Imaginative, far-fetched but entertaining. added to this you have elements of black humour, dark and almost disturbing. Tearle seems to have been experimenting with horror, certainly she enjoys dramatic and gory denouements.

In The Other Woman the persona is a hedonist in pursuit of sexual gratification at any price. Her victim, a willing one is Michael her boss. The story hinges on vanity, vanity of pursuit and fulfilment even if it is transient and fickle, meaningless beyond a few exciting grunts and groans then finito. Systematic and characteristic of modern 21st Century society. No courtship, no romance. "Love is lust is sex" mentality. I take what I want because I want it.

"I quickly turned to him and gave him a piercingly passionate stare, hoping he's realise it meant I wanted him and I knew he wanted me too." Confident, assertive and arrogant 21st Century female. Sounds like a satirical depiction of our lustful younger generation striving for sexual gratification and not a meaningful relationship.

"Nothing else mattered but the moment. That amazingly passionate moment."

The Femme Fatale walks out on her boss confident she can find a better job but she misses the sex. No doubt about that. Bitter-sweet therapy. She then spends the next week of her life doing what we would all like to do-contemplating the future, trying to figure out the meaning of life. After being groped then raped in a back alley she returns home full of disgust, anger and extremely hurt half-heartedly contemplating suicide, not once but twice.

With the arrival of the stunningly beautiful Gina, Michael's wife with the

"perfect ass" the story takes an unexpected turn with an original and unexpected climax. A love triangle. Try and work that one out if you can!

Publisher: 6913 Press. ISBN: 978 0955 2045.