Wakenhyrst

By Michelle Paver

Book Overview

A Times Best Book of 2019.
'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE, Books of the Year 2019. "Something has been let loose..."

In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father.

When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened.

Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen - and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past.

Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl's longing to fly free by the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air. Wakenhyrst is an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788549570
• ISBN13: 9781788549578
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent gothic suspense

Really enjoyed the gothic dread in the novel as you realize that something awful and life changing is going to happen. As the story unfolds thru the eyes of main character Maud, the reader sympathizes with what all she endures growing up under her oppressive, eventually insane father's rule. The reader gets a historical look back at pre world War era, countryside life in the fens. The settings of the fen and the great manor house are creepily described in an elegant way that puts you in that place and time and make for a deliciously creepy read.