«This might be the best book I've read all year . . . creepy, pagan, detailed, entrancing. I loved it.»

JOANNE HARRIS, author of Chocolat and The Strawberry Thief

«Smart, creepy . . . glittering and menacing . . . deliciously terrifying.»

Laird Hunt, GUARDIAN

«A glorious, pitch-black fairytale of a book. Lush, strange and defiant. As soon as I finished it, I went straight back to the start and read it again.»

KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark

«Odd and unsettling, this might not be for everyone, but we thought it was magic.»

HEAT magazine

«Dark and magical, one of the best books I've read this year.»

Books, Bones & Buffy

«A fairytale, a psychological portrait and a bleak drama.»

New Books Magazine

«Exploring the darker side of fairytales, it inhabits that liminal space where folklore and horror collide. A worrying tale where reality is filtered through the unreal, and the rational rubs shoulders with the supernatural, this is a beguiling story of love and revenge.»

LUCIE McKNIGHT HARDY, author of Water Shall Refuse Them

«Bruce's spooky novel is lascivious and bloody, a tale of sexual awakening and dark desires that wreathes its leafy tendrils seductively around you, then tightens them until they start to strangle.»

James Lovegrove, FINANCIAL TIMES

«Dark and immersive; a feast of storytelling that lingers long after the last morsel's been consumed.»

SAM LLOYD, author of The Memory Wood

«This beguiling and unsettling debut had me hooked from the first page . . . a unique, strange and defiant folk horror story which lingers long in the memory.»

DAILY EXPRESS

«A bewitching, beguiling, and deeply unsettling tale of one woman's strange life. It will ensnare you from page one and keep you riveted until the end.»

CAITLIN STARLING, author of The Luminous Dead

«In this storytelling masterclass, everything is inverted.»

DAILY MAIL