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Welcome to Dorley Hall

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What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely?

Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day he disappears without a trace. A year later, after encountering a woman who looks near-identical to Mark, Stefan becomes obsessed. He finds that dozens of young men have disappeared over the years, many of them students at the Royal College of Saint Almsworth, and most of them troubled or unruly. Why are students going missing? Who are these women who bear striking resemblances to them? And what is their connection to the selective student accommodation on the edge of campus, Dorley Hall?

Stefan starts studying at Saint Almsworth for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to get it to happen to him, too.

An electrifying début by Alyson Greaves, Welcome to Dorley Hall is an intense exploration of gender and society that will appeal to readers of Torrey Peters, Imogen Binnie and Gretchen Felker-Martin.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 19, 2024
      There’s much to admire in this provocative blend of fairy tale and horror from debut novelist Greaves. In 2012, self-loathing British teen Stefan Riley is devastated when his only friend, Mark Vogel, vanishes from the Royal College of Saint Almsworth (popularly, “Saints”). As weeks turn into months without a trace—save for Stef’s curious supermarket encounter with an attractive young woman who could pass for Mark’s twin—he continues to search, discovering that, over the years, dozens of boys have disappeared while attending the university. Stef’s theory? Someone at Saints, specifically in the women’s residence of Dorley Hall, is operating a secret program to help closeted trans girls transition—and he wants in. Two years into his own stint at Saints, Stef wakes up the morning after a party where he’d drunkenly grilled the charming, auburn-haired Christine, only to find himself locked into a concrete cell in Dorley Hall’s basement. From there, the plot splits, with one thread tracing Stef’s fate and the other following Christine and the rest of the Dorley sisterhood. Though the pacing drags at times, and the attempt to give the Dorley program a sympathetic origin story seems forced, Greaves deserves credit for crafting such a unique and darkly funny narrative. This one’s hard to forget.

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