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Mothtown

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“Hardaker will put a spell on you with her sleek and haunting prose.”
– Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 
bestselling author of Mexican Gothic


Mothtown is weird, horrifying and latches hold of you. Sometimes it grows from within you.


File Under: Fantasy [ The Moth Effect | It Grows Within | Book of the Moth | Time Flies ]

David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school. David doesn’t really know because his parents turn off the news whenever he might get a handle on what is happening around him and his older sister just doesn’t seem interested in sharing.
Most importantly for David the centre of his world – his grandfather – is gone. His parents say he is dead but why is his grandfather’s backpack and jumper missing from the house? Alongside this we have a man abandoned in a hostile landscape and trying out run nature itself to get back home with some information.
Caroline Hardaker is a poet and novelist from the northeast of England. She has published two collections of poetry, and her work has appeared worldwide in print and on BBC radio.  She is Writer in Residence for Newcastle Puppetry Festival and is currently collaborating with the Royal Northern College of Music to produce a cycle of songs to be performed throughout the year. She lives and writes in Newcastle.

Release Date

2023-11-14

Formats

Ebook, Paperback

EBook ISBN

14th November 2023 | 9781915202772 | epub & mobi | £4.99/$6.99/$7.99

Paperback ISBN

14th November 2023 | 9781915202734 | Paperback | £9.99/$17.99/$23.99

“Hardaker will put a spell on you with her sleek and haunting prose.”
– Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 
bestselling author of Mexican Gothic

“Hardaker returns with yet more moody and malevolent body horror, rife with the underpinning themes of isolation and loneliness.”
– SciFiNow

“Hardaker’s prose is pensive, melancholic and lyrical.”
– The Fantasy Hive

“Mothtown broke my mind in the best way. It is a touching story of a grandfather who discovers a secret about the nature of Universe (think Lord Asriel of His Dark Materials, but more domesticated) and his grandson, David, who tries to follow him into the place he goes. Revelation, transformation, and madness follow in this absolute song of a book.”
– Chris Panatier, author of The Phlebotomist

Mothtown is an ambitious, intimate portrait of an isolated mind and the atrophy of societal bonds. A real treat for the fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and of Susanna Clark’s Piranesi, it’s one of those books that will stay with you for a long time.”
– Gabriela Houston, author of The Second Bell

 

ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR CAROLINE HARDAKER

“Deliciously creepy!”
– Chris Riddell, triple Award-winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal

“Highly recommended.”
– Booklist, Starred Review

“as thought-provoking as it is chilling.”
– Publishers Weekly

“Hardaker’s prose is pensive, melancholic and lyrical.”
The Fantasy Hive

“an exceptional debut novel.”
SciFiNow

“The writing is wistful and works in such a way you don’t realise how wonderfully strange the book is until you are enfolded in it.”
RJ Barker, author of The Bone Ships

“an unapologetic, intimate tale of our shared human fragility, and the deceptions we employ to keep from breaking.”
Chris Panatier, author of The Phlebotomist

“Creepy and enthralling, Hardaker’s superbly written debut will drip feed you dread from beginning to end.”
– Dan Hanks, author of Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire