Spoilt Creatures : An Observer Best Debut of 2024 – ‘compelling, cultish and utterly feral’ Alice Slater – 9781035407958

An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘Emma Cline’s The Girls meets Lord of the Flies . . . compelling, cultish and utterly feral’ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller’A simmering debut, heady with the righteousness of female rage’KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The Mercies’Lush and dreamlike – a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread’COLIN WALSH, author of Kala’A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods – haunting and exhilarating’JENNIFER SAINT, author of AriadneTHEY THOUGHT THEY KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT US. THE KIND OF WOMEN WE WERE. Iris seeks a different kind of life. Promise comes in the form of Hazel, who lives at Breach House – a women’s commune on a remote farm. At Breach House, the women live and eat in abundance, are guided by landscape and ritual, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan matriarch, Blythe. But is Breach House truly the haven it seems? When an unforgivable transgression comes to light and power struggles intensify, the women find themselves hurtling towards an act of devastating violence that will threaten everything they’ve fought to create. ? What readers are saying: ? ‘I could not recommend this more if I tried… A powerful, remarkable debut novel filled with sublime prose, a warm quiet queerness, and a feral female rage’ ? ? ? ? ? ‘Simply breathtaking, this book was unstoppable’ ? ? ? ? ? ‘When I tell you I absolutely devoured this book, I mean it. She’s sapphic, she’s feral, and she’s very difficult to put down’ ? ? ? ? ? ‘The poetry of Twigg’s words…I wanted to swallow them whole and have them sit in me forever. They were just so good’ ? ? ? ? ?