If what hooked you in The Furies was Violet slipping into Annabel’s hush‑hush seminars, the graveyard initiation, and the group’s charged rites that may or may not have real power, you’ll love the way Dalloway’s history of witches wraps around Felicity Morrow and the brilliant new student Ellis. The book mirrors the secret lessons and charged female bonds you saw with Robin, Alex, and Grace—complete with midnight ceremonies, forbidden research, and a question that keeps tightening: is the darkness psychological—or supernatural?

Like Violet being chosen for Annabel’s select circle at Elm Hollow, Blue van Meer is pulled into a dazzling teacher’s orbit and a tight‑knit group whose private gatherings feel like a syllabus written in secrets. If you loved the way the art-history lessons on witches bleed into the girls’ loyalties and betrayals in The Furies, this novel’s “seminar” vibe, coded readings, and a sudden death that reframes everything will scratch the same itch—intellectual seduction first, then the trap snaps shut.

If you were compelled by how Violet gets swept along by Robin’s daring and the clique’s escalating rituals in The Furies, Bunny turns that same momentum feral and surreal. Samantha is drawn into a sugary‑sweet, dead‑eyed cohort whose workshops curdle into creation rites and moral rot. The way boundaries erode—friendship into complicity, performance into harm—echoes the morally slippery choices the Elm Hollow girls make when their games go too far.

If what stayed with you from The Furies was the ferocity of Violet’s bond with Alex, Grace, and especially Robin—the whispered loyalties, the coded signals, and the petty cruelties that escalate—this Dublin boarding school mystery zeroes in on that same volatile energy. A murder on campus exposes rival cliques, secret shrines, and the kind of ride‑or‑die promises that feel sacred until they’re weaponized.

If Violet’s introspective voice, her grief‑shadowed arrival at Elm Hollow, and the way a charismatic teacher (Annabel) becomes the axis of obsession drew you in, The Truants offers that same psychological pull. Jess falls under a magnetic lecturer, and as her new friends tangle romantically and morally, a disappearance forces her to re‑examine every memory—much like how Violet re‑threads the past after the body on the bench in the opening pages.