GLAMOURS follows Maddeline, nicknamed Madd, a completely ordinary girl who finds herself in a school (more of a prison) in which the students can cast powerful glamours—spells that affect other people's minds. Students at the Scholomance are able to create illusions to disguise their own bodies or the world around them; they cannot change reality, and they cannot escape. Madd makes friends with a strange cast of characters—a gender-queer book nerd who dresses up as fictional characters, a blind boy who uses the eyes of those around him to navigate, a trans girl who is the most beautiful person at the school, and a boy with intense depression who is slowly turning invisible. Madd's seemingly simple courage and morality help the Glamour Children to find out why they were imprisoned, what it means to have such intrusive access to the interior lives of others, and how to rescue themselves. GLAMOURS is unusual for the heavy themes it deals with, and the magical ideas that come almost at an onslaught for the reader. The novel's format has some experimental elements, such as an Oscar-Wilde-esque play within the story, a chapter written from the point of view of the book nerd that includes literary footnotes, and a character who compartmentalizes her fear by speaking in parenthetical thoughts. GLAMOURS is the first book in a duology.