Swansong
Kerry Andrew
3.83 · 6 ratings · Published: 25 Jan 2018
Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north to the Scottish Highlands. As soon as she arrives, this spirited, funny, alert young woman goes looking for drink, drugs and sex – finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. She also finds a fresh kind of fear, alone in this eerie, myth-drenched landscape. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations – floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods – she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner? And what is his sinister secret?
Kerry Andrew is a fresh new voice in British fiction; one that comes from a deep understanding of the folk songs, mythologies and oral traditions of these islands. Her powerful metaphoric language gives Swansong a charged, hallucinatory quality that is unique, uncanny and deeply disquieting.
- fantasy 4
- horror 3
- magical realism 3
- contemporary 3
- folktales & legends 3
- folk-horror 2
- rural 2
- spooky 2
- gothic 2
- literary fiction 2
- witches & sorcerers 2
- psychological 1
- female mc 1
- retellings 1
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- book 1
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