An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024 Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize
'Emma Cline's The Girls meets Lord of the Flies . . . compelling cultish and utterly feral'
ALICE SLATER author of Death of a Bookseller ' A simmering debut heady with the
righteousness of female rage' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE author of The Mercies 'Lush and
dreamlike - a sweltering novel where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread' COLIN WALSH
author of Kala 'A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods - haunting and
exhilarating' JENNIFER SAINT author of Ariadne THEY THOUGHT THEY KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT US.
THE KIND OF WOMEN WE WERE. Iris seeks a different kind of life. Promise comes in the form of
Hazel who lives at Breach House - a women's commune on a remote farm. At Breach House the
women live and eat in abundance are guided by landscape and ritual all while under the
leadership of their gargantuan matriarch Blythe. But is Breach House truly the haven it
seems? When an unforgivable transgression comes to light and power struggles intensify the
women find themselves hurtling towards an act of devastating violence that will threaten
everything they've fought to create. ⭐ What readers are saying: ⭐ 'I could not recommend
this more if I tried... A powerful remarkable debut novel filled with sublime prose a warm
quiet queerness and a feral female rage' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ' Simply breathtaking this book was
unstoppable' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'When I tell you I absolutely devoured this book I mean it. She's
sapphic she's feral and she's very difficult to put down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'The poetry of Twigg's
words...I wanted to swallow them whole and have them sit in me forever. They were just so good'
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