'Simply the most consistently inventive brilliant curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN
FLYNN 'Gripping ... Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL
TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers an extraordinary and arresting novel
about a nineteenth-century women's asylum and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the
world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a
position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There his work focuses on women who
have been neglected by the state - women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.
Based on authentic historical documents Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest
regions of the American psyche. 'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING via X 'A
triumph of style and brio' FINANCIAL TIMES ' Terrifying' FLAUNT 'Vividly and
compellingly-drawn' iNEWS
