![]() ![]() Gailey credits Killing Eve, the BBC television series about an MI5 agent tracking an international assassin, as an influence. “There's no one to catch her if she falls,” they add. They note how Ivy’s privilege as a white woman allows her to nose-dive into alcoholism without interference from friends or family. Ivy is “so lonely that she’s able to construct this entire lie about her life without anyone calling her on it,” Gailey continues. “One of the most interesting things about her is that she's an incredibly lonely woman, which we don't get a ton of in media,” says Gailey of the novel's narrator, a high-functioning alcoholic who fumbles relationships with the men she fancies. While other fantasy series follow powerful wizards as they come of age, Gailey was more interested in how Ivy, who has no power at all, might fare in a world where she's at a strategic disadvantage-and where being an outsider stirs up even more emotional turmoil. ![]() Unlike everyone else at Osthorne-including her estranged twin sister, Tabitha-Ivy possesses not a single spark of magic. Ivy Gamble, a hard-drinking private eye with a chip on her shoulder, takes on the case. At the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, the elite private high school at the heart of debut novelist Sarah Gailey's Magic for Liars, there's offensive graffiti on the school lockers, secret notes encoded with spellwork.and a beloved teacher dead in the school library. ![]()
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