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The year that Florida fell into the sea, I killed a man and joined a cult and ran away to Mexico. I ate human flesh for the first time. It''s another sticky summer in New Orleans and the world is ending. Natural disasters abound, tourists are descending on the Old Town and Marcy''s old wrestling scar has reopened. It''s enough to make any girl want to take her seemingly perfect husband and tedious job and set it all on fire. So when Marcy meets a crew of degenerate filmmakers who are keen to whisk her away from her ordinary life, she lets herself be swept into their world of filth, arson and debauchery. For their part, they''re convinced Marcy''s strange scar is a sign she''s the Chosen One they need to lead their community through the end of times. For hers, she''s never been able to resist that kind of flattery. Praise for Freakslaw ''A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy'' Guardian ''Cracking with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex'' Heat ''A celebration of the marginalised'' Observer ''As frightening as it is seductive'' Herald

About the author

Jane Flett is a Scottish writer who lives in Berlin. Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She's a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, the New Orleans Writing Residency and the Berlin Senate Stipend for non-German literature. Freakslaw is her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Flett, Flett Jane
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.05.2026
• EAN: 9781529955064
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5506-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New Orleans, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Horror & ghost stories, Occult fiction, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, c 1990 to c 1999, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Horror / General