Fawn

🍎 'Unflinching... I loved it' Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb
🦌 'Disturbing, seductively written fiction about power and female rage' Guardian
🍁 'A genuinely beautiful piece of work, and has an incredibly strong narrative voice, mixing nature, love, sex and gore, with a palpable sense of rage, betrayal and familial dysfunction at its heart' SFX
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'The devil came on the autumn equinox, as he always did.'

Tess Wynne keeps mostly to herself in the hills of Appalachia. Her wildlife sanctuary is a refuge for the wounded and unwanted - and the only home she has left. She has built it carefully, with old rituals and even older bargains with the ominous visitor that comes each year.

Then she finds a doe split open on the road.

Beside it is the fawn who survived. Red-mouthed. Full set of teeth. Hungry.

From the moment Tess brings it home, whispers gather in town. A new pastor starts asking questions. And inside Tess, something primal begins to wake: anger, appetite, the slow understanding that prey is only prey for so long.

Dark, tender and eerie, Fawn is a slow-burning folk horror of nature, ritual and feverish femininity - a story about what a woman must become to protect what is hers.

*Fawn is published in the US as The Devil Knows Her Name

🦌 'I want to grind this book into dust and sprinkle it in my coffee. It's feral.'
🦌 'This book had me reacting OUT LOUD'
🦌 'A perfect amalgamation of horror, feminist rage, and spooky witchcraft'
🦌 'Gets under your skin without really trying'
🦌 'Rachel Harrison meets Grady Hendrix'