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Follow Me To Ground

By: Sue Rainsford
Narrated by: Adam Sims, Kate Handford, Francine Brody, Crystal Clarke, Jamael Westman
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Brought to you by Penguin.

'Weird, tender, haunted. A deeply affecting spectacle, equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year’ TEA OBREHT, author of Orange Prize winner, The Tiger’s Wife

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019

'Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream' COLIN BARRETT

In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments.

When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever.

A poised and simmering tour-de-force, FOLLOW ME TO GROUND is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019

(c) 2019, Sue Rainsford (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

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Critic Reviews

Seethingly assured ... odd and muscular enough to resist easy interpretation. It can be read on many levels – as a fable about female yearning, or about containment and contagion; as an investigation into toxic relationships or a puzzle over the borders between human and non-human – but it is always singularly and entirely itself
Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate.
Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch.
A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book
Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising. She gives Ada a unique voice which fills and haunts the narrative. One of the strangest books I've read in a long time, it is utterly compelling and will linger, uninvited, in your consciousness long after you've turned the last page.
Equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year
Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream
Rainsford's fairy and folktale sensibility blends seamlessly with horror . . . An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell.
A wildly imaginative exploration of desire, fear and what it means to be a person . . . Beautiful and terrifying
A quite unclassifiable creation, accomplished if unpinnable. There are many genres dipping their toes into this little plot: magical realism, practical gardening, myths and mythology, folk tales, sex for beginners, alternative medicine – with a soupçon of horror to stupefy the reader. Fairy tale comes closest perhaps, but not as many would know it
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