Not only are they doomed to die young and violently, but they bring the same fate to anyone they choose as friends or lovers. The Villarca family, around which the novel is centered, is doubly cursed. Catriona Ward’s achingly melancholy and frightening debut novel, The Girl from Rawblood, is a beautifully rendered ghost story that will get your heart thumping - a reminder that things that go bump in the night are not always as mundane as a vase knocked over by the cat. And if you’re an adult who likes a good scare now and again, maybe you miss that feeling. If you’re an adult, it’s likely been a while since you’ve been truly afraid - not anxious or concerned, but knees-knocking, feet-quaking-in-boots afraid.
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