{"product_id":"foxash-9781472294876","title":"Foxash","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley''s fiction is something to savour'' Sarah Waters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. Exquisitely written and deeply original, with secrets that are tightly layered, always surprising and teased out with impressive control'' Bethan Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a Government scheme to put the unemployed back to work on the land. When she comes down to Essex to join him, it''s not Tommy who greets her, but their new neighbours. Overbearing and unkempt, Jean and Adam Dell are everything that the smart, spirited, aspirational Lettie can''t abide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Lettie settles in, she finds an unexpected joy in the rhythms of life on the smallholding. She''s hopeful that her past, and the terrible secret Tommy has \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley's fiction is something to savour\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sarah Waters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. Exquisitely written and deeply original, with secrets that are tightly layered, always surprising and teased out with impressive control\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bethan Roberts\u003cbr\u003eWith slow, quiet intent \u003cb\u003eKate Worsley builds a tense atmosphere of looming horror\u003c\/b\u003e. This book \u003cb\u003edemands to be savoured\u003c\/b\u003e, even as it \u003cb\u003eclamours to be devoured\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Worsley has a wonderfully fertile imagination. She writes for the senses: the touch of soil; the taste of a home remedy; the whiff of decay. Her wily prose curls around the story she is telling, like a creeper\u003c\/b\u003e -- Katie Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeguiling, and written with a piercing eye for style. It burrows under the surface of the rural idyll, exposing a shadowy hinterland\u003c\/b\u003e -- Eva Dolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding evocation of the rural uncanny. \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003cb\u003edeceptively sensual prose\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Worsley \u003cb\u003eeviscerates the idyll of the smallholding\u003c\/b\u003e and lays bare the vicious desperation of characters pitted against the elements and themselves * Sarah Bower *\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cb\u003e loved the brooding suspense of \u003ci\u003eFoxash \u003c\/i\u003e- both the unspoken and the fear of speaking dominate its claustrophobic setting. \u003c\/b\u003eWorsley takes us into a revelatory and revisionist corner of the Twentieth Century. * Jonathan Myerson *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoxash\u003c\/i\u003e almost pulses with the force of its telling;\u003cb\u003e the prose is lush, with a feverish, seething, darkly erotic edge. \u003c\/b\u003eAll that ripens, soon rots, and what rots must be hidden. What a story Worsley has conjured * Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739466117463,"sku":"9781472294876","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472294876.jpg?v=1720052326","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/foxash-9781472294876","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}