<p><b>An <i>Observer </i>top ten best new novelist for 2024</b><br><b><br>'</b>A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage' <br><b>Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of <i>The Mercies</i></b><br><br>'Lush and dreamlike - a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread'<br><b>Colin Walsh, author of <i>Kala</i></b><br><br>'This lusciously verdant novel is rich in grit and dirt, in sensuality and oblivion'<br><b>Lara Williams, author of <i>Supper Club</i></b><br><br>'A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods - haunting and exhilarating'<br><b>Jennifer Saint, author of <i>Ariadne</i></b><br><br>'Emma Cline's <i>The Girls </i>meets <i>Lord of the Flies</i> . . . compelling, cultish and utterly feral'<br><b>Alice Slater, author of <i>Death of a Bookseller</i></b><br>______<br><br><b><i>They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were.</i></b><br><br>It was a place for women. A remote farm tuck