Rawblood by Catriona Ward
She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Their disease confines them to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse.
From Victorian ghost story to anti-war polemic and back again: I raged, wept and hid under the bed coversAs 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 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
Catriona Ward was born in Washington DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She now lives in London where she works as a writer and researcher for Bianca Jagger's human rights foundation. Rawblood is her first novel. @Catrionaward
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297609643 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297609645 |
| Title | Rawblood |
| Author | Catriona Ward |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2015-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016 |
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