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The Lamb

The bestselling literary horror sensation
By Lucy Rose
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'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold' KIRSTY LOGAN'Destined to become a classic' WASHINGTON POST'A new generation of horror begins with Lucy Rose' GENEVIEVE JAGGER A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When... Read More
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The instant No. 2 Sunday Times bestseller, the coming-of-age cannibal folktale that everyone is talking about

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'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold' KIRSTY LOGAN

'Destined to become a classic' WASHINGTON POST

'A new generation of horror begins with Lucy Rose' GENEVIEVE JAGGER

A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.

Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.

But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, little Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires and make her own bid for freedom.

With this tender coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts - and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399619752

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 247g

Pages: 352

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Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Literary Fiction Lucy Rose

About the Author

Lucy Rose is a writer and filmmaker with an interest in the gothic, girlhood and horror. Her short fiction and personal essays have been published in Dread Central, Mslexia, Ghouls on Film and more. She's proud to be a Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough alumni writer and one of Mslexia's featured columnists and fiction writers. In early 2023, she was awarded Arts Council DYCP funding for literary development. She currently lives in Newcastle.

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