Gifted & Talented

Olivie Blake

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15 July 2025

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Succession meets magic in Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake. This 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.

Where there’s a will, there’s a war.

Thayer Wren, brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech, is dead. As the ‘father of modern technology,’ he leaves an incredible legacy. But which of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children could inherit the Wrenfare throne?

Meredith, head of her own profitable company, has recently cured mental illness. If only her journalist ex-boyfriend wasn’t set on exposing what she really is: a total fraud. Arthur, second-youngest congressman ever, wants to do everything right. Except his wife might be leaving, and he’s losing his re-election campaign. Heading Wrenfare could relaunch his sinking ship. Eilidh was a world-famous ballerina, until a life-altering injury. Gaining the company might finally validate her worth.

On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins. Yet as they gather to read his final words, which Wren will come out on top?

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

Praise for Gifted & Talented

‘Addictively entertaining, this is Blake at the height of her abilities’ – Ava Reid, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth

‘Utterly brilliant’ – Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings

‘A timely tale of greed, ambition and rivalry . . . terrific’ – M. L. Rio, bestselling author of If We Were Villains

Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 28 Feb 2022

By: Olivie Blake
Imprint: Tor
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 752g
ISBN: 9781035011377
ISBN 10: 1035011379
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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 & 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