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Redder Days
Sue Rainsford
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Description for Redder Days
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'So immense and beautiful, it's both gorgeously composed and an addictive page-turner. Sue Rainsford is an extraordinary writer' DONAL RYAN
'Unnervingly, thrillingly strange . . . a masterpiece of literary horror' CAL FLYN
'Lyrical, hypnotic and provocative, I devoured Redder Days in a single, slightly furious sitting and have been haunted by it ever since' JAN CARSON
Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they believe is imminent. Adam keeps watch by day, Anna by night. They meet at dawn and dusk.
Their ... Read moreonly companion is Koan, the commune's former leader, who still exerts a malignant control over their daily rituals. But when one of the previous inhabitants returns, everything Anna and Adam thought they knew to be true is thrown into question.
Dazzling, unsettling and incredibly moving, Redder Days is a stunning exploration of the consequences of corrupted power, the emotional impact of abandonment, and the endurance of humanity in the most desperate of situations, by the author of Follow Me to Ground.
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Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Sue Rainsford
SUE RAINSFORD studied History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin, and works as an arts writer. While studying Visual Arts she read Simone de Beauvoir and became fascinated by the poetic, metaphorical language around the female experience. From here emerged the book's hints of magic realism and other unique imagery. Sue Rainsford lives in Dublin. Follow Me to Ground is ... Read moreher first novel and was longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize. Her second, Redder Days, is due to be published by Doubleday in 2021. Show Less
Reviews for Redder Days
Rainsford's spare, haunting style and willingness to tread into dark areas make this an accomplished and disturbing read.
Observer
So immense and beautiful, it's both gorgeously composed and an addictive page-turner. Sue Rainsford is an extraordinary writer.
Donal Ryan
A unique new voice in Irish writing ... I was drawn in and completely gripped by this ... Read moredark, mysterious tale.
Irish Times
Lyrical, hypnotic and provocative, I devoured Redder Days in a single, slightly furious sitting and have been haunted by it ever since
Jan Carson
A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book. I will be reading everything Rainsford ever writes
DAISY JOHNSON
on Follow Me To Ground
Brilliantly original
Irish Independent
Incredibly moving, superbly imaginative and beautifully written
Elaine Feeney, author of As You Were
Unnervingly, thrillingly strange ... a masterpiece of literary horror
Cal Flyn Terrifying, exquisite, enthralling - and shockingly beautifully written
Louise Kennedy, author of The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
A beautifully written, enigmatic nightmare ... visceral, timely and deeply unsettling
SFX
Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising
Irish Independent on Follow Me To Ground
A wildly imaginative exploration of desire, fear and what it means to be a person . . . Beautiful and terrifying
Sunday Times on Follow Me To Ground
Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate
Daily Mail on Follow Me To Ground
Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch
Metro on Follow Me To Ground
Rainsford's fairy and folktale sensibility blends seamlessly with horror . . . An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell
Kirkus on Follow Me To Ground
Beautiful
Irish Times
The writing is dauntingly elliptical, the atmosphere of the novel charged with doom. Uneasy reading for uneasy times
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