She had started working for Godwin when he offered her an internship after he declined her earlier novel Aurora. Shannon began writing The Bone Season while working for book agent David Godwin and attending St Anne's College, Oxford.

She must absorb all the knowledge she gains access to, she must hone her gift. But, if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. He is her master, her trainer, her natural enemy. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. It is raining the day her life changes forever. Paige is a dreamwalker, the rarest type of clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. Her job: to scout for information by locating human minds. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Of the novel, Shannon stated that she wondered what would happen if 'dystopia dealt with the supernatural' and if there were a second Salem Witch Trials.

National Film & TV School who was nominated for a best British short BAFTA Award for co-writing “Slap.” The Bone Season was also named the first book in NBC's Today show's monthly book club. The small screen adaptation of “The Bone Season” is being written, with input from Shannon, by Scottish screenwriter IR Bell-Webb, an alum of the U.K. Television rights to The Bone Season have been sold to Harriet Hammond's Little Hat Productions. The novel was published on 20 August 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing and is the first of a seven book series. The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon and is her debut novel.

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