Foxash: 'A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel' Sarah Waters

Foxash is a gothic novel of quiet and powerful menace, of the real hardships of rural life, and the myths and folklore that seep into ordinary lives, with surprising consequences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

A novel that transports readers to a hauntingly atmospheric world, filled with vivid images that seem to leap off the page. Sarah Waters' fiction is a delightful treat to savor.

This captivating book is a rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. It is exquisitely written and deeply original, with secrets that are carefully layered, always surprising, and skillfully teased out with impressive control.

Bethan Roberts, the author of "My Policeman," praises it as a "rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure."

Lettie Radley and her miner husband, Tommy, are struggling with poverty. They seize the opportunity to own a smallholding as part of a government scheme aimed at providing employment to the unemployed. When Lettie arrives in Essex to join her husband, she is greeted not by Tommy but by their new neighbors, Jean and Adam Dell. Jean and Adam are overwhelming and unkempt, and everything that Lettie, a smart, spirited, and aspirational woman, cannot stand.

As Lettie settles into her new life on the smallholding, she finds unexpected joy in the rhythms of rural life. She hopes that her past, and the terrible secret Tommy has come to Foxash to escape, are far behind them.

However, the Dells have their own secrets, and as the seasons change, and a man comes knocking at the gate, the stage is set for a terrible reckoning.

Foxash blends a gothic sensibility with a visceral, unsettling sense of place, creating a deeply original novel of quiet and powerful menace. It delves into the real hardships of rural life and the myths and folklore that seep into ordinary lives, with surprising consequences.

This captivating book will leave readers captivated, haunted, and deeply impressed by its atmospheric prose and unforgettable characters.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 233 x 154 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472294883