Rawblood
Sep 2015 · Hachette UK
5.0star
1 reviewreport
Ebook
368
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More
About this ebook
Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016
She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all.
For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love.
It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake.
'With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel' Daily Mail
She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all.
For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love.
It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake.
'With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel' Daily Mail
Ratings and reviews
5.0
1 review
Leane
- Flag inappropriate
June 29, 2024
Having grown up in the southwest of England and spent time in and around Dartmoor, this tale beautifully portrays the atmosphere and feelings it leaves with you. The mists, fogs, storms, and malevolence that roll across the Moors with little warning, the ambience of the buildings that encroach onto the Moors, the people who live on its fringes and interact with its whims. Sounds fanciful, but this is the reality I know to be true of Dartmoor. It seeps into the story and underlines Isla's fate. There are a couple of small errors in the novel, but nothing that would stop you from reading this fairly unique-feeling story to the end. Whilst you may work out the twist ahead of the end, Rawblood will still sit with you and linger beyond the last page.
About the author
CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA from the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, RAWBLOOD, won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and was selected as a Winter 2016 Fresh Talent title by WHSmith. RAWBLOOD is published in the US and Canada as THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD (Sourcebooks, 2017). She lives in London and Devon.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
