Our Fiction Book of the Month for November 2019
MEDIA REVIEWS
By the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air,an outstanding new piece of story-telling,a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition.
Something has been let loose...
In Edwardian Suffolk,a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother,ruled by her repressive father.
When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard,unhallowed forces are awakened.
Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft,the age-old legends of her beloved fen - and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past.
Spanning five centuries,Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781788549578Number of pages: 416Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'(Michelle Paver's) storytelling is irresistible'-The Times
'It's a ghost story to put beside the classics of an earlier era...Compelling'-Evening Standard.
'Original and engrossing...Paver masterfully blends together two narratives...Spanning fen devils,mystics and the lot of women in Edwardian England'-The Observer.
'This book has been haunting me...Very gripping'- BBC Radio 2 Book Club
'(A) superb,supernatural novel...Paver deliciously ratchets up the tension as Maud struggles for autonomy in the face of her father's deranged obsessions'-The Daily Mail.
'A demonic presence lurks in the fens in this tale about murder,loneliness and an abusive relationship'-The Times
Michelle Paver
Michelle Paver is a British novelist and children's writer,best known for her fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness,set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe.
Visit the Michelle Paver author page
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