Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and has published two YA horror novels in the U.S. with Flux Books and France in with Editions Milan. <i>The Lonely</i> is about a girl who is crushed by a rock and bleeds to death all day long and <i>The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated)</i> <i></i>is about a girl who may or may not have murdered all of her friends with a pick-axe. Her short fiction has been published in <i>Hazlitt</i> <i>Black Static</i> and elsewhere. <b>'A gruesome blackly funny utterly original feminist horror story</b><b>' </b><br><i>New York </i><b><i>Times</i></b><b> Notable Book of the Year </b><br><br><b>'A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre's most promising voices'</b><br><i><b>Buzzfeed</b></i><br><br>Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband Ralph and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother Laura whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's venomous and cruel especially to Abby who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own now-estranged mother raised her.<br><br>When Laura takes her own life her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura's hold on the family for good. <b>A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law</b> <b>Gripping... A gutsy gory mashup of domestic horror and dark humour</b> <b>A gruesome blackly funny utterly original feminist horror story</b> <b>A dark moving hugely entertaining slab of gothic horror....and also very funny </b> <b>A disgusting and delightful romp of a book</b> <b>Filled with sharp crackling sentences which bend variously sinister humorous and sad Ainslie Hogarth's new novel is a stunner. Like Mona Awad's <i>Bunny </i>or Ottessa Moshfegh's<i> Eileen</i> <i>Motherthing</i> is a fabulous frightening story built from fine fine prose</b> <b>This novel is bursting with smart provocative heart-breaking things to say about the nature of grief and its ability to take up just as much - if not more - physical space than the actual person lost. <i>Motherthing</i> is gory and irreverent and totally irresistible</b> <b>A masterfully crafted horror novel that's by turns humorous and deeply unsettling... Packs a punch</b> <b>Profane insane hilarious disgusting - and unexpectedly moving</b> <b>A smart taut hallucinatory book about mothers daughters and relationships of care. And buckets of blood.</b> <b>One of my favourite books of the year so far... <i>Sorrow and Bliss</i> but make it haunted</b> <b>Gripping... A gutsy gory mashup of domestic horror and dark humour</b> <b>A gruesome blackly funny utterly original feminist horror story</b> <b>A dark moving hugely entertaining slab of gothic horror....and also very funny </b> <b>A disgusting and delightful romp of a book</b> <b>Filled with sharp crackling sentences which bend variously sinister humorous and sad Ainslie Hogarth's new novel is a stunner. Like Mona Awad's <i>Bunny </i>or Ottessa Moshfegh's<i> Eileen</i> <i>Motherthing</i> is a fabulous frightening story built from fine fine prose</b> <b>This novel is bursting with smart provocative heart-breaking things to say about the nature of grief and its ability to take up just as much - if not more - physical space than the actual person lost. <i>Motherthing</i> is gory and irreverent and totally irresistible</b> <b>A masterfully crafted horror novel that's by turns humorous and deeply unsettling... Packs a punch</b> <b>Profane insane hilarious disgusting - and unexpectedly moving</b> <b>A smart taut hallucinatory book about mothers daughters and relationships of care. And buckets of blood.</b> <b>One of my favourite books of the year so far... <i>Sorrow and Bliss</i> but make it haunted</b>