Gifted and Talented

Olivie Blake

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Tor U.K.
08 April 2025

Fantasy; Fiction: special features; Urban Fantasy

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake is the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

The children of Thayer Wren have been remarkable since the day they were born. Unsurprisingly, since Thayer was the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology. Telepathically and telekinetically gifted, his offspring - Meredith, Arthur and Eilidh Wren - are publicly admired and privately capable of extraordinary feats. Any of the Wren prodigies would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think.

On the day of Thayer Wren's unexpected demise, the lives of the three Wren siblings are in various states of chaos and disrepair. Meredith, now CEO of her own profitable company, is knee-deep in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, haunted by the ghost of a childhood friend. She's also facing imminent exposure for corporate malfeasance by a journalist ex-boyfriend. Congressman Arthur Wren is wrestling with his disgruntled constituency and a strange, magical malady that can only be called the yips. Eilidh, former prima ballerina whose spinal injury ended her career, now finds herself triggering accidental, uncontrolled apocalypse events.

In the wake of Thayer's loss, the Wrens return to their childhood home. Here they will face their contentious relationships with their father, and each other. On the journey of gifted kid to clinical depression, nobody wins - but which Wren will rise to the top? Can one of them seize the prize of their father's crown?

This is a compulsive contemporary fantasy of family, twisted love and dangerous secrets from a writer at the height of her powers.

'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' - Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

'Sign me up for anything she writes' - Cosmopolitan

Also by Olivie Blake: The Atlas Six The Atlas Paradox The Atlas Complex Alone with You in the Ether One For My Enemy Masters of Death Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

By: Olivie Blake
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 622g
ISBN: 9781035011384
ISBN 10: 1035011387
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone with You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, Masters of Death, Januaries and Gifted & Talented. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult rom-coms My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, goblin prince/toddler and rescue pit bull.

Reviews for Gifted and Talented

Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent -- Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights This book is half mystery, half puzzle and wholly a delight -- Holly Black, author of Book of Night on The Atlas Six Compelling, entertaining and addictive. The Atlas Six is academic Darwinism: survival of the smartest with a healthy dose of magic -- T. L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead Coolly horrific, brilliantly brainy and utterly compelling -- Daily Mail on The Atlas Six Sign me up for anything she writes -- Cosmopolitan