Kate Worsley's first novel, She Rises, won the HWA Debut Crown for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize in the US. She was born in Preston, Lancashire and now lives on the Essex coast.
A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of
images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley's fiction
is something to savour
*Sarah Waters*
A rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. Exquisitely written and deeply
original, with secrets that are tightly layered, always surprising
and teased out with impressive control
*Bethan Roberts*
With slow, quiet intent Kate Worsley builds a tense atmosphere of
looming horror. This book demands to be savoured, even as it
clamours to be devoured
*The Times*
Kate Worsley has a wonderfully fertile imagination. She writes for
the senses: the touch of soil; the taste of a home remedy; the
whiff of decay. Her wily prose curls around the story she is
telling, like a creeper
*Katie Ward*
Beguiling, and written with a piercing eye for style. It burrows
under the surface of the rural idyll, exposing a shadowy
hinterland
*Eva Dolan*
A spellbinding evocation of the rural uncanny. In deceptively
sensual prose Kate Worsley eviscerates the idyll of the
smallholding and lays bare the vicious desperation of characters
pitted against the elements and themselves
*Sarah Bower*
I loved the brooding suspense of Foxash - both the unspoken and the
fear of speaking dominate its claustrophobic setting. Worsley takes
us into a revelatory and revisionist corner of the Twentieth
Century.
*Jonathan Myerson*
Foxash almost pulses with the force of its telling; the prose is
lush, with a feverish, seething, darkly erotic edge. All that
ripens, soon rots, and what rots must be hidden. What a story
Worsley has conjured
*Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown*
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