Carrion Crow

Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton''s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cecile, who is concerned about her engagement to an older, near-penniless solicitor, Mr Lewis, and wishes to educate her daughter on ''proper'' married conduct - lest she drag the family''s good name into disrepute. But why is Marguerite pursuing the aged Mr Lewis in the first place? Why are her mother''s visits seemingly becoming less frequent? And just how much time has passed since the lock closed on the attic''s hatch? Carrion Crow is a transportive and gloriously gothic commentary on the constraints of polite society - and the even greater danger of conformity - that unfurls one family''s festering secrets.

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Carrion Crow, surely, will win awards . . . Every sentence oozes a crushed purple poetry, overripe with devastation and wretchedness . . . If you finish it feeling you might just skip dinner, then you also feel filled with awe for a writer so gifted at conveying this much ick in such luxuriant, refulgent style. Observer

Product details

• Authors: Heather Parry
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9781529938692
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3869-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Gothic, Central London, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Psychological thriller, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Horror and supernatural fiction, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General