A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cultA compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cultWHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE?Green and Blue are sisters.Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad.Green understands.Why can’t Blue?‘Will lure you in - then cut to the kill’ Guardian‘Wonderfully tense’ Emerald Street‘To read Foxlowe is not unlike wandering through Foxlowe itself on some long night: I felt never quite certain where the corridors might take me, nor whom I might meet on turning a corner; and in the final moments I found myself hurtling down a flight of steps into the dark’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent‘The ending is like a punch to the throat’ The iWe were the Family, and Foxlowe was our home.There was me – my name is Green – and my little sister, Blue. There was October, who we called Toby, and Ellensia, Dylan, Liberty, Pet and Egg. There was Richard, of course, who was one of the Founders. And there was Freya.We were the Family, but we weren’t just an ordinary family. We were a new, better kind of family.We didn’t need to go to school, because we had a new, better kind of education. We shared everything. We were close to the ancient way of living and the ancient landscape. We knew the moors, and the standing stones. We celebrated the solstice in the correct way, with honey and fruit and garlands of fresh flowers. We knew the Bad and we knew how to keep it away.And we had Foxlowe, our home. Where we were free.There really was no reason for anyone to want to leave.‘This fable will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Sarah Perry, Guardian‘Meticulously conceived and darkly compelling. Underpinning the claustrophobic horror is a parable of unchecked sibling rivalry, a girl’s desperate need for motherly love and the knotted consequences of childhood trauma’ Observer‘A richly atmospheric Gothic debut . . . meticulous, intimate and compelling. Foxlowe may give up its secrets, in the end, but it never gives up its hold’ Irish Times‘An accomplished debut . . . the ending [is] like a punch to the throat’ Independent‘Unsettling and persuasive, impressively well executed and, at the last, utterly disturbing. I'm still flinching away from thinking about the final scene’ Alison Flood, Lovereading‘Mesmerising, gripping and beautifully written. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end. I loved it' Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat‘Wasserberg has a strong and distinctive voice and this is an excellent debut’ Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go‘An extraordinary, astonishing story of a girl's longing for motherly love. Beautifully harrowing, and powerfully haunting, it is the most heartbreaking tale I have read this year’ Liz Nugent, author of Unravelling Oliver‘I thoroughly enjoyed this vivid and claustrophobic coming-of-age debut’ Tasha Kavanagh, author of Things We Have in Common‘Dissonant, haunting and superbly atmospheric. An immensely subtle and profoundly affecting debut’ Paraic O’Donnell, author of The Maker of SwansEleanor Wasserberg is a graduate of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of East Anglia. Originally from Staffordshire, she now lives in Norwich.• A taut, atmospheric page-turner - perfect for fans of Emma Donoghue’s Room (more than half a million sold TCM) and Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching• A modern Gothic classic in the making, with a deeply unsettling climax• Explores the uncannier side of belief and group mentality with the keen and subtle eye of a modern Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House 14K TCM)• Steeped in a powerful sense of place and informed by Staffordshire folklore about stone circles and the famed double sunset, visible once a year at summer solsticeCompetition: After Me Comes The Flood; Hide And Seek; Stopped Heart; Essex Serpent; Girls On Fire; Missing Presumed; After Me Comes The Flood; The Natural Way Of Things. Joanna Cannon;Mary Shelley; Susie Steiner; Julie Myerson; Ross Armstrong; Emma Donoghue; Jessie Burton; Andrew Michael Hurley; Fiona Barton; Caroline Kepnes; Carys Bray; Gregg Hurwitz; Sarah Perry; Ragnar Jonasson; Kristina Ohlsson; Alice Clark-Platts; Deborah Levy; Anna Hope; Christobel Kent; Robin Wasserman;
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