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Rawblood

By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Victoria Fox, Peter Kenny
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In 1910, eleven-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor.

Iris and her father are the last of their name. The Villarcas always die young, bloodily. Iris believes it's because of a congenital disease which means she must isolate herself from the world.

But one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother's grave, she forces the truth from her father: the disease is biologically impossible. A lie, to cover a darker secret.

The Villarcas are haunted, through the generations, by her. She is white, skeletal, covered with scars. When a Villarca marries, when they love, when they have a child - she comes and death follows.

When Iris is fifteen, she breaks her promise to remain alone all her life, and the consequences are immediate and horrific.

©2015 Catriona Ward (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Literary Fiction Scary Fiction Haunted
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Excellent narration and beautiful descriptive writing. Very moving and melancholy story and a joy to listen to.

The sad tale of a family haunted through generatio

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This is an incredible work of dark fiction, intense and poetic, with remarkable depth and passion. Well worth reading for those who like the work of Du Maurier, M.R James, Shirley Jackson, or E. F. Benson, or well, really anyone who loves a ghost story well told. Excellent.

A beautiful Gothic ghost story

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