Carrion Crow

“As mesmerizing as it is surreal, Carrion Crow is a haunting gothic tapestry.”
—Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb

“One of the best books I’ve read this year! . . . I loved it.”
—Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites and Our Wives Under The Sea

“A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale . . . A true Gothic gem.”
—Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time

“One of the most important new voices in fiction, with Carrion Crow Heather Parry deduces an unutterable Gothic horror of class and gender . . . magnificent and devastating.”
—Alan Moore, award-winning author of Watchman and V for Vendetta

“Grizzly, compelling, and utterly claustrophobic.”
—Heather Darwent, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Things We Do to Our Friends

“Beautifully written with such dark, claustrophobic precision, exploring the devastating control we assert upon one another. Such an achievement.”
—Rachelle Atalla, award-winning author of The Pharmacist

“Delicate, deftly written and enticingly obscene, Carrion Crow will captivate you from the first sentence and haunt you long after the story ends. I’ve never read anything quite like it.”
—Jan Carson, prize-winning author of The Raptures

“A brilliant, fecund, vividly embodied book. Carrion Crow gives us the seams where mind touches body, where lust touches revulsion, where past touches present touches future—and Parry lines these meeting points with all the rot and richness out of which the most beautiful, terrifying things grow. I loved this gorgeous, grotesque stew of a novel.”
—Clare Beams, author of The Garden

“Carrion Crow, surely, will win awards . . . Every sentence oozes a crushed purple poetry, overripe with devastation and wretchedness . . . If you finish it feeling you might just skip dinner, then you also feel filled with awe for a writer so gifted at conveying this much ick in such luxuriant, refulgent style.”
—Observer

“Nods to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and, more obliquely, to the mythic grotesquerie of Angela Carter’s early fiction.”
—Times Literary Supplement

“Carrion Crow may be set in a fetid late Victorian London and couched in lightly brocaded prose, but what lurks within is unmistakably red in tooth and claw, a creature nearer in kinship to Kathy Acker than to Sarah Waters . . . richly fecund and adult in every sense of the word.”
—Guardian

“Carrion Crow is a worthy entrant into the contemporary gothic hall of fame . . . I’m not sure the pure rancidness of this book will ever totally leave me.”
—Financial Times

“Haunting and vivid, creating that palpable sense of isolation so hard to create. Parry’s atmospheric storytelling leaps off the page.”
—Glamour

“What a truly disturbing tale!”
—CrimeReads