Catriona Ward. (2017). The Girl from Rawblood: A Novel. Sourcebooks.

Catriona Ward. 2017. The Girl From Rawblood: A Novel. Sourcebooks.

Catriona Ward, The Girl From Rawblood: A Novel. Sourcebooks, 2017.

Catriona Ward. The Girl From Rawblood: A Novel. Sourcebooks, 2017.

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     Catriona Ward was born in Washington DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford followed by the UEA Masters in Creative Writing. After living in New York for 4 years where she trained as an actor, she now works for a human rights foundation and lives in London.

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"An impressively hectic spin on the Gothic tradition"—Telegraph

The winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL at the British Fantasy Awards by the author of The House on Needless Street!

What if it's not your mansion that's haunted—it's you?

Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances.

But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began, and where it must all end...

Perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Girl from Rawblood will pull readers through time into the early 1800s and 1900s, mesmerizing them with this lyrical story of cunning folk horror right until the breathtaking finish.

Praise for The Girl from Rawblood:

"Superb debut....Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny."

—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

"The Girl from Rawblood makes a powerful contribution to the British literature of the fantastic...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...A definite book of the year for me."

—Adam Nevill, award-winning author of The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive

"The Girl from Rawblood weaves a spell that both terrifies and mesmerizes. As each layer of mystery is peeled away, more haunting truth is revealed. The book leaves the reader breathless in its gothic tale of fear, family, blood, and love."

—Simone St. James, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel

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   • source: Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
   • content: "...superb debut....Wade perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Ward's layered and skillfully crafted novel weaves elements of classic gothic and horror into a remarkable story populated by unforgettable characters, palpable atmosphere, and rich lyricism. Imagine the darkest and goriest undertones of Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, and Shirley Jackson, and you'll have an idea of what Ward offers here."
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   • source: Emma Healey, best selling author of Elizabeth is Missing
   • content: "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."
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   • source: Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist
   • content: "Gloriously dark and claustrophobic, The Girl from Rawblood is a haunting gothic novel of intelligence and complexity. It has many echoes of the classics but is entirely its own book."
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   • source: Daily Mail
   • content: "With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel."
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   • source: LoveReading
   • content: "A ghostly, achingly sad, yet excruciatingly beautiful debut . . .Catriona Ward has created a moving, original tale of love and destruction, one that is truly enthralling and memorable."
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   • source: Bianca Jagger
   • content: "If you want to read a gripping ghost story and be kept awake all night . . . you must read The Girl From Rawblood"
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   • source: Strange Horizons
   • content: "The Girl from Rawblood is a fiercely original work of horror fiction that draws from its antecedents not in the manner of a vampire sucking blood, but of a thirsty artisan raising water from a well . . . a damn fine story, well paced and genuinely disturbing and achingly sad. This is one of those novels that leaves you loath to read anything else for a while, the world it evokes is so complete and so richly imagined. The Girl from Rawblood delivers all the mystery and menace that one might hope for in a classic ghost story. Moreover, it does not shrink from the ineffable. Fans of supernatural horror need not be disappointed: in The Girl from Rawblood, the ghosts are real."
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   • source: Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days
   • content: "The Girl from Rawblood is a cleverly interwoven Gothic tale of love and madness. Ward's atmospheric writing and chilling story drew me in from the first page, and kept me up at night, right through to the disturbing and tragic ending."
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    • source: Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
    • content: "The Girl from 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"
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    • source: A.K. Benedict, author of The Beauty of Murder and Jonathan Dark, or the Evidence of Ghosts
    • content: "Beautifully written Gothic. It is rare to find such sumptuous prose."
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    • source: Miranda Seymour, author of Thrumpton Hall
    • content: "The Girl from Rawblood is a mesmerizing debut novel. It will haunt your dreams."
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    • source: Charlie Lovett, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale and The Lost Book of the Grail
    • content: "The Girl from Rawblood is a precisely and beautifully woven tapestry through which threads of darkness wind their inevitable way. Ward has crafted a sweeping saga of madness in all its forms that will chill you to the bones and draw you into its murky depths."
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    • source: Kelly Link, 2016 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, author of Get in Trouble
    • content: "A story to satisfy the most gothic of hearts. I was hooked on the very first page and The Girl from Rawblood never let me go. Sentence by sentence, Catriona Ward made herself one of my very favorite writers."
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    • source: Den of Geek
    • content: "The west-country moors have been the setting for some of the most memorable of unsettling stories in British literature; there's something about that unconquerable space that threatens us, even now. The Girl from Rawblood is a continuation of our long-standing fear of the bleak expanse of the wide-open, so far from shelter or from normality, and it's brilliant."
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      Starred review from January 9, 2017
      Born in England in 1899, Iris Villarca, the principal narrator of Ward’s superb debut, grows up without human company, except for Tom Gilmore, a farmer’s son with whom she forms a secret bond, and her father, Alonso, the only other surviving Villarca. She believes that a rare disease necessitates their seclusion at Rawblood, their Dartmoor estate, but as she matures, Alonso reveals the truth: isolation is the only way to save Iris from a ghostly presence that destroys the Villarcas when they fall in love, marry, or have children. As WWI begins, Iris violates her father’s interdictions with horrific repercussions for both of them. A flashback to 1881, related by Charles Danforth, a doctor privy to Alonso’s complex past, reveals other horrors. Later, new viewpoints, spanning the years from 1839 to 1919, focus on the family’s women as each negotiates the powerlessness of her situation and time. Sharply evoked particulars—Devon’s landscape and period medical science emerge with special vividness—help root the spectral phenomena. Wade perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny. Agent: Sam Copeland, Rogers, Coleridge & White (U.K.).

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      Starred review from February 1, 2017
      

      Ward's textured debut opens in 1910 with young Iris Villarca. "This is how I come to kill my father. It begins like this," the 11-year-old girl says, setting a tone of dark overcast that will continue to the last page. Iris lives with her father at Rawblood, an estate on England's bleak Dartmoor moors with a dark history and unmarked graves. Iris lives by a strict set of rules that center on a singular focus: do not form any relationships, unless you want yourself--and others--to die. The last of their line, the Villarcas are trailed by a deadly curse that not only haunts those they love, but sickens any family member who tries to leave the property. Needless to say, Iris rebels against her father's rules and sets her sights on hapless farmer Tom Gilmore. Their budding romance unleashes a wonderfully twisted narrative that moves among time periods and points of view. VERDICT Despite a confused and stilted reading (owing to an overreliance on sentence fragments) in some of the chapters, Ward's layered and skillfully crafted novel weaves elements of classic gothic and horror into a remarkable story populated by unforgettable characters, palpable atmosphere, and rich lyricism. Imagine the darkest and goriest undertones of Edgar Allan Poe, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, and Shirley Jackson, and you'll have an idea of what Ward offers here. [Winner of Best Horror Novel at the British Fantasy Awards 2016.--Ed.]--Erin Entrada Kelly, Haverford, PA

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"An impressively hectic spin on the Gothic tradition"—Telegraph

The winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL at the British Fantasy Awards by the author of The House on Needless Street!

What if it's not your mansion that's haunted—it's you?

Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances.

But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began, and where it must all end...

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