Zoë Harris
Zoë is an Australian writer who has spent much of her adult life in Norway. She has learned not to take sunlight for granted and will never not tear up at the sound of a magpie warbling. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, and she was among the first cohort of Nova Ren Suma’s YA writers’ workshop at the Djerassi Artists Residence. Don’t ask her about tea unless you have time.
We Won't Remember Your Name
The arrival of two new students upends the rigid rules and social hierarchy for the students at the Fossbridge School for Timid Girls.
Mean Girls meets Severance in this dark academia YA novel set in The Fossbridge School for Timid Girls, a boarding school that exists outside of time and place, where girls frozen in their sixteenth year compete for their moment of triumph and freedom: Graduation. The only other way out is to Leave, but to do so is a shameful failure. Memories of the outside world fade quickly as the rigid rules and social hierarchy that dominate the girls’ days take over. Approval means survival and the right alliances are infinitely more valuable than trivial friendships.
But when quiet Isra Sabri and brash Theda Keats arrive and begin to challenge and disrupt Fossbridge’s delicate ecosystem, cracks begin to show in the school’s serene facade.
Whispers in their rooms at night…rumors of what really happens to girls who Leave…The girls of lowly Tier C struggle to hold onto their faith in the only system they know. And at the center of it all stands Fossbridge’s mysterious headmistress, Miss Hainesworth, who is at once the source of all stability and the keeper of the girls’ deepest fears.
Told through the collective voice of the overlooked and unacknowledged, We Won’t Remember Your Name explores the cost of conformity and the power gained by extending inner strength outward to fortify others.
Publication
US: Macmillan (Godwin Books)
Release date: Spring 2027
