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Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an invitation to the wedding...
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A cynical twenty something must confront her unconventional family's dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the acclaimed author of Cackle and Such Sharp Teeth.
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Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return.
But then an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s cousin Rosie arrives. Something inside her insists she go, even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.
When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the acclaimed author of Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth, and Bad Dolls.
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ISBN: 9781803367422
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Rachel Harrison is the author of CACKLE, winner of the Ladies of Horror Award for Best Novel and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and as an Audible Original. She lives in Western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.
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