Description
A gripping, sinister folktale set in contemporary Cumbria for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Angela Carter, Daisy Johnson, Margaret Atwood and Julia Armfield. Pre-order now.
'A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose'
Genevieve Jagger, author of Fragile Animals
'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold. Lucy Rose is one to watch. One of my favourite debuts in a long time'
Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch
'Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn - everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose's fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon'
Benjamin Myers, author of Cuddy
'Lucy Rose weaves together flesh, bones and mommy issues with unsettling deftness to create an unforgettable, nightmarish tale. I ate it all up'
Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding the Monster
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.
But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, little Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires and make her own bid for freedom.
With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts - and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.
About the Author
Lucy Rose is a writer and filmmaker with an interest in the gothic, girlhood and horror. Her short fiction and personal essays have been published in Dread Central, Mslexia, Ghouls on Film and more. She's proud to be a Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough alumni writer and one of Mslexia's featured columnists and fiction writers. In early 2023, she was awarded Arts Council DYCP funding for literary development. She currently lives in Newcastle.
Reviews
Deliciously dark and shockingly bold - someone needs to make this into a film right now! Lucy Rose is one to watch. This is one of my favourite debuts in a long time -- Kirsty Logan, author of NOW SHE IS WITCH
Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn - everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose's fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon -- Benjamin Myers, author of CUDDY
Lucy Rose weaves together flesh, bones and mommy issues with unsettling deftness to create an unforgettable, nightmarish tale. I ate it all up -- Anna Bogutskaya, author of FEEDING THE MONSTER
This is the book I've been waiting for. Dark, twisted and utterly enthralling, The Lamb is a novel I will never forget. Lucy Rose's prose gave me chills, perfectly capturing the horrors and beauties of girlhood. Dear reader, I predict you will be as obsessed as me -- Molly Aitken, author of BRIGHT I BURN
A dark, fearsome novel that sticks between your teeth. Rose writes about daughterhood with poetic clarity and tenderness -- Amy Twigg, author of SPOILT CREATURES
Outstanding and disturbing and transformative. A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose. Brutal yet tender, The Lamb is a book that refuses to offer its reader the easy way out. A masterclass in suspense with an unflinching focus on intergenerational violence, The Lamb will leave you with a twisting feeling on the inside. Sensational. Read now, before everyone you know gets there first -- Genevieve Jagger, author of FRAGILE ANIMALS
Lucy Rose is extraordinary. I devoured The Lamb in one evening and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Poetic, visceral and wildly addictive, I dare you not to fall in love with Rose's imagination. Consume this book and prepare for it to consume you -- Catherine Joy White, author of THIS THREAD OF GOLD
A modern Grimm fairytale. Heart-wrenching and sensuously lyrical, yet sinister, depraved and stomach-churningly good -- Susan Barker, author of OLD SOUL
The Lamb left me breathless. A beautiful, tender and disturbing novel, exploring mother-daughter relationships in a hugely ambitious and thought-provoking way. I loved it -- Rachelle Atalla, author of THE SALT FLATS
Visceral and aching, The Lamb is a magnetic, monstrous tale of womanhood and desire. I devoured it, hungry for each and every word. Margot is going to haunt me forever -- Victoria Hawthorne, author of THE DARKEST NIGHT
The Lamb will lure you in and devour you whole. Lucy Rose perfectly captures the toxic wilderness of motherhood and daughterhood in this poetic and electrifying debut -- Rose Wilding, author of SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
An extraordinary piece of work, dark, poetic, gothic, folky and full of courage and beauty. Incredible -- Tim Downie
Brilliantly raw and unflinching, The Lamb will lure you in and clutch hold of your heart. It's sweet, violent and unforgettable. Margot will steal your heart and linger long after the final page -- Prano Bailey-Bond, writer/director of CENSOR
The Lamb is a gorgeous, lyrical, evocative, hunger-inducing, and deeply moving novel that I just gobbled up, reading it totally compulsively right to the end -- Nussaibah Younis, author of FUNDAMENTALLY
If you think you might be too squeamish for a book about cannibals, think again. Lucy Rose will lure you in with beautiful prose and captivate you with this story about finding voice and agency, and what it is (and isn't) to love and be loved -- Kate Kemp, author of THE GRAPEVINE
Lucy Rose is not afraid, and this bold, complex, shock of a novel proves that. Deliciously drawn, this feral folktale speaks to the sinister nature of the mother wound on a visceral level. Literary horror at its peak -- Dawn Kurtagich, author of THE MADNESS
The Lamb . . . is not out until January but it has already created a buzz * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781399619714
Author Lucy Rose
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
'A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose'
Genevieve Jagger, author of Fragile Animals
'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold. Lucy Rose is one to watch. One of my favourite debuts in a long time'
Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch
'Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn - everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose's fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon'
Benjamin Myers, author of Cuddy
'Lucy Rose weaves together flesh, bones and mommy issues with unsettling deftness to create an unforgettable, nightmarish tale. I ate it all up'
Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding the Monster
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.
But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, little Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires and make her own bid for freedom.
With this gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts - and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.
About the Author
Lucy Rose is a writer and filmmaker with an interest in the gothic, girlhood and horror. Her short fiction and personal essays have been published in Dread Central, Mslexia, Ghouls on Film and more. She's proud to be a Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough alumni writer and one of Mslexia's featured columnists and fiction writers. In early 2023, she was awarded Arts Council DYCP funding for literary development. She currently lives in Newcastle.
Reviews
Deliciously dark and shockingly bold - someone needs to make this into a film right now! Lucy Rose is one to watch. This is one of my favourite debuts in a long time -- Kirsty Logan, author of NOW SHE IS WITCH
Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn - everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose's fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon -- Benjamin Myers, author of CUDDY
Lucy Rose weaves together flesh, bones and mommy issues with unsettling deftness to create an unforgettable, nightmarish tale. I ate it all up -- Anna Bogutskaya, author of FEEDING THE MONSTER
This is the book I've been waiting for. Dark, twisted and utterly enthralling, The Lamb is a novel I will never forget. Lucy Rose's prose gave me chills, perfectly capturing the horrors and beauties of girlhood. Dear reader, I predict you will be as obsessed as me -- Molly Aitken, author of BRIGHT I BURN
A dark, fearsome novel that sticks between your teeth. Rose writes about daughterhood with poetic clarity and tenderness -- Amy Twigg, author of SPOILT CREATURES
Outstanding and disturbing and transformative. A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose. Brutal yet tender, The Lamb is a book that refuses to offer its reader the easy way out. A masterclass in suspense with an unflinching focus on intergenerational violence, The Lamb will leave you with a twisting feeling on the inside. Sensational. Read now, before everyone you know gets there first -- Genevieve Jagger, author of FRAGILE ANIMALS
Lucy Rose is extraordinary. I devoured The Lamb in one evening and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Poetic, visceral and wildly addictive, I dare you not to fall in love with Rose's imagination. Consume this book and prepare for it to consume you -- Catherine Joy White, author of THIS THREAD OF GOLD
A modern Grimm fairytale. Heart-wrenching and sensuously lyrical, yet sinister, depraved and stomach-churningly good -- Susan Barker, author of OLD SOUL
The Lamb left me breathless. A beautiful, tender and disturbing novel, exploring mother-daughter relationships in a hugely ambitious and thought-provoking way. I loved it -- Rachelle Atalla, author of THE SALT FLATS
Visceral and aching, The Lamb is a magnetic, monstrous tale of womanhood and desire. I devoured it, hungry for each and every word. Margot is going to haunt me forever -- Victoria Hawthorne, author of THE DARKEST NIGHT
The Lamb will lure you in and devour you whole. Lucy Rose perfectly captures the toxic wilderness of motherhood and daughterhood in this poetic and electrifying debut -- Rose Wilding, author of SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
An extraordinary piece of work, dark, poetic, gothic, folky and full of courage and beauty. Incredible -- Tim Downie
Brilliantly raw and unflinching, The Lamb will lure you in and clutch hold of your heart. It's sweet, violent and unforgettable. Margot will steal your heart and linger long after the final page -- Prano Bailey-Bond, writer/director of CENSOR
The Lamb is a gorgeous, lyrical, evocative, hunger-inducing, and deeply moving novel that I just gobbled up, reading it totally compulsively right to the end -- Nussaibah Younis, author of FUNDAMENTALLY
If you think you might be too squeamish for a book about cannibals, think again. Lucy Rose will lure you in with beautiful prose and captivate you with this story about finding voice and agency, and what it is (and isn't) to love and be loved -- Kate Kemp, author of THE GRAPEVINE
Lucy Rose is not afraid, and this bold, complex, shock of a novel proves that. Deliciously drawn, this feral folktale speaks to the sinister nature of the mother wound on a visceral level. Literary horror at its peak -- Dawn Kurtagich, author of THE MADNESS
The Lamb . . . is not out until January but it has already created a buzz * Sunday Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781399619714
Author Lucy Rose
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
