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One of the most important new voices in fiction, with Carrion Crow Heather Parry deduces an unutterable Gothic horror of class and gender from the pages of Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management. A festering Edwardian nightmare dressed in exquisitely tailored language, Parrys vision is magnificent and devastating. * Alan Moore, author of Watchmen * Sublime, wretched, harrowing, glorious. * Kirsty Logan * Carrion Crow picks at the scabs of class, sexual liberty and body autonomy in Victorian London and chews them over with grotesque attention to detail. Sharp, claustrophobic and undeniably gross, it revels in the repulsive and positions Heather Parry as both a punk Sarah Waters and the baddest bitch in the business. I cant wait to see this strange bird fly to dizzying heights. * Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller * A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale about confinement and consumption, Carrion Crows takes the mad woman in the attic trope and turns the dial up to 100. Heather Parrys layered novel is both terrifying and thoughtful a true Gothic gem. * Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time * Carrion Crow is a book to marvel at. Beautifully written with such dark, claustrophobic precision, exploring the devastating control we assert upon one another. Such an achievement. * Rachelle Atalla, author of The Pharmacist * An incredibly powerful writer * Edward Carey, author of Little * Grizzly, compelling, and utterly claustrophobic * Heather Darwent, author of The Things We Do To Our Friends * Probably one of the best books I've read this year! It felt like an unholy mix of Ottessa Moshfegh and Leonora Carrington, whilst still being very much its own thing. By turns grotesque and painfully tender, Carrion Crow is a masterful novel by a writer in complete control. Seldom have I read so compulsively or been so keen for a book not to end. It is a novel of achy compassion and consummate nastiness and I loved it. * Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites * Heather Parry has written an exquisitely horrifying little book. Delicate, deftly written and enticingly obscene, Carrion Crow will captivate you from the first sentence and haunt you long after the story ends. I've never read anything quite like it. * Jan Carson, author of The Raptures * Carrion Crow is a rancid work of genius about the depths to which the world will go to rid women of their unnatural desires. This novel makes the walls close in and the body an oozing font of horror, and I fell in love with its wild beating crow heart. Heather Parry is a disgusting mastermind and Id read anything she wrote. * Jane Flett, author of Freakslaw *
Heather Parry is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and a short nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, and writes the Substack general observations on eggs. She was raised in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Fidel and Ernesto.