Little Eve

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror and the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.

You liked The Wasp Factory? Meet Little Eve Natasha Pulley, author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET

A smart and moving examination of self delusion and the lengths people go to to keep faith . . . I raced through it Kiran Millwood Hargrave

A wonderful literary gothic tale Sarah Pinborough

Where is Evelyn? Oh, I remember. She took our eyes.

New Years Day, 1921. Seven mutilated bodies are discovered in an ancient stone circle on a remote Scottish island. The victims are the Children - members of a nature cult ruled by the charismatic, sadistic patriarch, the adder.

The sole survivor of the massacre, Dinah, claims that Eve is the murderer, apparently drowned while attempting her escape. Yet as Eves story of the years leading up the massacre intertwines with Dinahs account of the aftermath, a darker, stranger truth begins to emerge.

The Isle is all Eve knows. Hidden from the world, the Children worship the Great Snake who dwells in the ocean, dance in the stones at dawn and offer their blood in sacrifice. The adders word is law. When Eve is forced into the world beyond the Isle her faith and love are tested by unexpected friendships that make her question everything. As she begins to see through the adders macabre fictions, the world Eve knows collapses. Does she lose her humanity with her belief? Does it drive her to kill?

Little Eve is a sublime, utterly compelling tale which grabbed me by the lapels and wouldnt let go. A dark, beautiful, gleaming novel. I loved it Irenosen Okojie

Little Eve is brilliantly plotted, wonderfully well written and full of surprises. It has perfect timing, line by line Andrew Cowan, author of PIG and WORTHLESS MEN

Little Eve brims with dark energy, full of haunting, surprising turns. You will be guessing and gasping till the end Philip Womack