Rawblood - Brossura

Catriona Ward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780229143 ISBN 13: 9781780229140

Casa editrice: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2016

Riassunto

Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016

She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all.

For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love.

It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake.

'With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel' Daily Mail

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From Victorian ghost story to anti-war polemic and back again: I raged, wept and hid under the bed covers. As full of science as it is the supernatural, this is a hauntingly brilliant virtuoso performance. (Emma Healey author of ELIZABETH IS MISSING)

Gloriously dark and claustrophobic, Rawblood is a haunting gothic novel of intelligence and complexity. It has many echoes of the classics but is entirely its own book. (Essie Fox, author of THE SOMNAMBULIST)

A gothic tale of love and madness, this atmospheric and chilling story drew me in from the first page, and kept me up at night, until I reached the last (Claire Fuller, author of OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS)

The story crosses generations, from Victorian England to World War I, and is told by a number of different voices, going back and forth in time and drawing the reader into their thrall. With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel (Fanny Blake Daily Mail)

plenty of twists and turns that had me on the edge of my seat. (WOMAN AND HOME)

Chillingly good (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express S Magazine)

As a meta-examination of the Gothic genre (it's mostly set in the 19th Century( and as a straightforward tale of grisly haunting, Ward's novel is remarkably successful. (THE SPECTATOR)

carried off in fine style (LITERARY REVIEW)

an impressively hectic spin on the Gothic tradition (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Rawblood makes a powerful contribution to the British literature of the fantastic. It's an epic family saga incorporating a great Gothic house, built upon a lyrically rendered regional landscape, from which the numinous rises as if it is a natural function of the setting. There's a touch of Ted Hughes here, Emily Bronte and M.R James in this eerie and by turns moving story that spans generations. It filled my head for several evenings, and will linger there too . . . A definite book of the year for me (Adam Nevill, author of THE RITUAL)

Descrizione del libro:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016
'Hauntingly brilliant' Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth Is Missing
A chilling ghost story set on Dartmoor for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Susan Hill and Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black.

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• Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1780229143
• ISBN 13: 9781780229140
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384