Carrion Crow (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2025-02-27
Förlag
Doubleday
Dimensioner
25 x 224 x 145 mm
Vikt
361 g
ISBN
9781529938685

Carrion Crow

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2025-02-27
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A powerful and spine-tingling gothic tale exploring mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, and class. Bold, blazing, absolutely unforgettable Elizabeth Macneal, bestselling author of The Doll Factory 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 I loved it Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites and Our Wives Under The Sea A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale.... A true Gothic gem Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you. Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing. Thats what her mother had said. Marguerite Prigord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames. For company she has a sewing machine, Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management and a carrion crow who has come to nest in the rafters. Restless, she spends her waning energies on the fascinations of her own body, memorising Mrs Beetons advice and longing for her life outside. Ccile Prigord has confined her daughter Marguerite for her own good. Ccile is concerned that Marguerites engagement to a much older, near-penniless solicitor, will drag the family name her husbands name, that is into disrepute. And for Ccile, who has worked hard at her own betterment, this simply wont do. Cciles life has taught her that no matter how high a woman climbs she can just as readily fall. Of course, both have their secrets, intentions and histories to hide. As Marguerites patience turns into rage, the boundaries of her mind and body start to fray. And neither woman can recognise what the other is becoming. Praise for Carrion Crow: One of the most important new voices in fiction, with Carrion Crow Heather Parry deduces an unutterable Gothic horror of class and gender... magnificent and devastating Alan Moore, award-winning author of Watchman and V for Vendetta Grizzly, compelling, and utterly claustrophobic Heather Darwent, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Things We Do to Our Friends Beautifully written with such dark, claustrophobic precision, exploring the devastating control we assert upon one another. Such an achievement. Rachelle Atalla, award-winning author of The Pharmacist 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, prize-winning author of The Raptures
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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 *

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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.