- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804951408
- Length: 144 pages
- Price: £9.99
Stacey Halls, author of THE FAMILIARSHaunting and beguiling, this fever dream of a novel draws you in and colours your mind all shades of doubt and suspicion.
Rowe Irvin, author of LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTHXenobe Purvis has done something masterful here. The Hounding is a novel of rare grace and skill, exquisitely wrought and simmering with feral violence. This book is both lyrical and muscular; to read it is to submit to a current that every now and again pulls you under and leaves you gasping. I can't wait to devour everything she writes
Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMBSeamlessly crafted, The Hounding is an unflinchingly strange and savage novel – a rare and twisted pleasure to read. Xenobe Purvis writes about the female experience with an unsettling and startling honesty. This is an unmissable must-read for every girl who has ever been made to feel strange. In a single word, The Hounding is breathtaking.
Flora Carr, author of THE TOWERA haunting, dark and visceral story . . . chilling.
Otegha Uwagba, author of LITTLE BLACK BOOKHaunting and melancholy and bittersweet and just the most beautiful, evocative prose. For fans of Jeffrey Eugenides, Julia Armfield and Sophie Mackintosh.
Marni Appleton, author of I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPYThe Hounding is a sweaty fever-dream of a novel. The writing is gorgeous: it bristles with rage and crackles with energy. Unsettling, vivid and irresistibly readable. I can't wait to see what Xenobe Purvis writes next.
Julia Phillips, author of BEARThe Hounding is a debut novel bound to be a cult classic. It’s a tale set centuries ago that throbs with a bloody, living heart. It’s a jewel dug from the depths of Xenobe Purvis’s imagination. It’s exquisite.
Laurie Lico Albanese, author of HESTERHaunting . . . This chilling story can be read as a parable of female empowerment or as a tale of feverish bedevilment overtaking an entire town. Xenobe Purvis has written a book so masterful, you will not be able to look away.
Clare Beams, author of THE GARDENA gorgeous, lush landscape of a book - and a haunting tale of the strangeness of girlhood. Our view of the Mansfield sisters flickers like sunlight through trees, always partially obscured, always brilliant. This novel is tender, witty, and terrifying, and I loved it.
About Xenobe Purvis
Xenobe Purvis was born in Tokyo in 1990. She read English Literature at Oxford University, has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. She is a writer and literary researcher, currently co-editing a volume of Christopher Isherwood’s selected letters. Her essays have been published by the TLS, The London Magazine, and others, as well as in collections in the US and UK.
Her debut novel THE HOUNDING will be published in 2025.
Her debut novel THE HOUNDING will be published in 2025.
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