Rawblood

Rawblood
Author Catriona Ward
Audio read by Victoria Fox
Peter Kenny
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Horror
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date
 2015
Media type Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobook
Pages 320 pages (UK hardback)
ISBN 0297609645
Followed by The Girl from Rawblood

Rawblood is the 2016 debut horror novel by Catriona Ward.[1][2] The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2015 through Weidenfeld & Nicolson.[3]

Synopsis

At the book's start Iris Villarca is an eleven year old girl growing up in Dartmoor during 1910. She and her father live in a mansion named Rawblood, where he keeps her isolated from the general population. Iris's father justifies this isolation by stating that he fears that she will die from Horror autotoxicus, a disease that caused her mother's death and has been a reocurring ailment for the Villarca family. Despite this restriction Iris ends up befriending Tom Gilmore, only to find that their fathers are enemies. Iris's father discovers the relationship and tries to bribe her to stay away from Tom by paying for her tuition to medical school. She accepts the offer, but as time passes Iris secretly begins to believe that her father has made up the disease, unaware of her father's own past.

Reception

Strange Horizons reviewed Rawblood favorably, praising it for "deliver[ing] all the mystery and menace that one might hope for in a classic ghost story."[4] The Daily Mail and Historical Novel Society also reviewed the work, the latter of which called the writing "powerful and atmospheric".[5][6]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Whiteley, Aliya (May 10, 2016). "10 strange novels of the British countryside". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  2. ↑ "How a childhood haunting inspired a novel". Western Morning News. 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  3. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (May 13, 2014). "W&N buys 'chilling' debut". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  4. ↑ Allan, Nina (December 2, 2015). "Strange Horizons Reviews: Rawblood by Catriona Ward, reviewed by Nina Allan". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  5. ↑ "Rawblood by Catriona Ward (review)". Historical Novels Society. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  6. ↑ Blake, Fanny (September 10, 2015). "DEBUT FICTION: Truth, lies and a haunted house". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  7. ↑ "Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2016". British Fantasy Society. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
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