A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke.
During a visit to her local shopping mall, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. She's just left her fiance?, lost her job, and moved home to her parents' house. She has to bring some good into her life, so she takes a chance. And flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine.
An orchid growing in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. The beautiful florist belongs to him, and he'll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats- nobody he eats-can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves.
Infused with wit, heart and horror, this is a story about possession, monstrosity and working in retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked... Griffin thrives in the liminal space between genres, throwing out roots and blooming in weird and wonderful ways." -- V.E. Schwab "It's been an excellent few years for gothic novels, and Eat the Ones You Love is among the best I've read. It's certainly the most fun. Gorgeous, bewitching, full of heart and secrets and smarts, it kept me up late and turned my dreams strange." -- Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love "This murdery plant is my number one problematic fave. Eat The Ones You Love is intricate, unusual, and unlike anything you've read before. An eccentric, deeply sensual, and artistically sure-footed exploration of toxicity in many forms. I devoured it." -- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six "Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise." -- Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil "Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece?inventive, intimate, and so incisive on the way class shapes human relationships. Griffin's voice is absolutely singular; scalpel-sharp and deeply lyrical, every word unexpected and yet precise. Simply put, this book redefines the literary horror genre. Fans of Paul Tremblay and T. Kingfisher have found their new obsession." -- Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls "Eat the Ones You Love is a beautiful, dark gem of a book. Sarah Maria Griffin writes with acute attention to the intersection between class and relationships, and the all-consuming effects of possession." -- Zoraida Cordova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina "Eat the Ones You Love is a visceral experience akin to stepping into a lush greenhouse and feeling your skin come alive, blood warm and tingling, as spring green vines brush your cheeks whispering promises of hunger. Decadent, heartfelt, delicious, dark, broken, sweet, and horrifying, this book is a journey of verdant, blooming love and creeping terror not to be missed." -- Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times-bestselling author of Bloom and Guillotine "This poignant and original examination of desire and decay is a stunner." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "The ultimate complex relationship story, this horrific tale is infused with humor and wit via Griffin's prose... Fans of John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In should pick this up." -- Library Journal, starred review "Sarah Maria Griffin's prose is intoxicatingly verdant - I found myself dying to get back to reading any time life forced me to put it down. Griffin's voice holds your hand through the pages with compelling surety. It's a palpable, skilfully executed horror where you can't see the florist for the trees until it's too late. This one lingers and I loved it." * Courtney Smyth, author of The Undetectables *
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Maße
Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-80336-676-0 (9781803366760)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sarah Maria Griffin's first novel, Spare and Found Parts, was published by Titan Books in Spring 2018 and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards that year. Her second, Other Words For Smoke, arrived in April 2019. Her collection of essays about emigration, Not Lost, was published by New Island Press in 2013. Her nonfiction has appeared in Winter Papers, Guts, The Stinging Fly and The Irish Times and more recently, in a weekly series about the internet for The Gloss Magazine. She was the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary for Literature in 2017 and 2018, and is a winner of the European Science Fiction Chrysalis Award. She was the Writer in Residence in Maynooth University in 2017/18, the DLR Writer In Residence in 2018/19. She tweets @griffski.
