Starve Acre The disturbing folk horror novel from the author of Barrowbeck
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Andrew Michael Hurley is based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, won the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Devil's Day, his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers, and won the Encore Award. Starve Acre was made into a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.A tour de force of physiological fantasia . . . Writing of this quality - sensuous, exact, observant - ensures that other scenes, too, pulse with vitality . . . Hurley's gothic storylines send spectres of deathliness through his fictional world. His prose brings it vividly alive
Sunday Times
A tour de force of physiological fantasia . . . Writing of this quality - sensuous, exact, observant - ensures that other scenes, too, pulse with vitality . . . Hurley's gothic storylines send spectres of deathliness through his fictional world. His prose brings it vividly alive
Sunday Times
I will confidently predict that no reader will guess where it's heading, particularly in the novel's startling last sentence . . . Hurley's ability to create a world that's like ours in many ways and really not in many others is again on full display . . . Starve Acre, leaner and perhaps even more unsettling than its predecessors, may well be his best novel so far
The Times
I will confidently predict that no reader will guess where it's heading, particularly in the novel's startling last sentence . . . Hurley's ability to create a world that's like ours in many ways and really not in many others is again on full display . . . Starve Acre, leaner and perhaps even more unsettling than its predecessors, may well be his best novel so far
The Times
Beautifully written and triumphantly creepy
Mail on Sunday
Beautifully written and triumphantly creepy
Mail on Sunday
A perfectly pitched tale of suspense and the dark side of folklore . . . perfect, page-turning reading for a dark night
Herald
A perfectly pitched tale of suspense and the dark side of folklore . . . perfect, page-turning reading for a dark night
Herald
This kind of book, as with ghost stories from M.R. James to Susan Hill, demands a phenomenal control of language and atmosphere to work at all, and Hurley provides it in spades . . . This is a wonderful story of its type that has all the qualities of unease, nastiness, terror, psychological trauma and implied physical revulsion one expects from folk horror. But it's nothing to the denouement it foreshadows
The Spectator
This kind of book, as with ghost stories from M.R. James to Susan Hill, demands a phenomenal control of language and atmosphere to work at all, and Hurley provides it in spades . . . This is a wonderful story of its type that has all the qualities of unease, nastiness, terror, psychological trauma and implied physical revulsion one expects from folk horror. But it's nothing to the denouement it foreshadows
The Spectator
Brilliantly written . . . Evoking Ted Hughes's style of writing, Hurley is adept at seamlessly intertwining the malignant savagery of nature with abstract use of imagery for horror effect. He has this uncanny ability of bringing the palpable supernatural to life with a neat, serene turn of phrase. All these hallmarks of superlative writing are in full display in this impeccable work of folk horror. Starve Acre is a haunting portrait of what happens in the liminal space between grief and sanity
Irish Times
Brilliantly written . . . Evoking Ted Hughes's style of writing, Hurley is adept at seamlessly intertwining the malignant savagery of nature with abstract use of imagery for horror effect. He has this uncanny ability of bringing the palpable supernatural to life with a neat, serene turn of phrase. All these hallmarks of superlative writing are in full display in this impeccable work of folk horror. Starve Acre is a haunting portrait of what happens in the liminal space between grief and sanity
Irish Times
The new novel from the award winning author of The Loney is a further entry in a genre that Hurley is fast making his own . . . Hurley adeptly creates an unsettling atmosphere and keeps us guessing about the extent to which his characters are haunted by grief, by more primordial supernatural forces, or both. This chilling story will set spines tingling and teeth on edge: just the thing for Halloween
Daily Express
The new novel from the award winning author of The Loney is a further entry in a genre that Hurley is fast making his own . . . Hurley adeptly creates an unsettling atmosphere and keeps us guessing about the extent to which his characters are haunted by grief, by more primordial supernatural forces, or both. This chilling story will set spines tingling and teeth on edge: just the thing for Halloween
Daily Express
Expertly paced . . . creepy and marvellous
Daily Mail
Expertly paced . . . creepy and marvellous
Daily Mail
Hurley's striking prose evokes a rising sense of dread in this brief, unforgettable novella
Metro
Hurley's striking prose evokes a rising sense of dread in this brief, unforgettable novella
Metro
Andrew Michael Hurley has been carving out a niche for himself as a notable writer of modern gothic since the success of his Costa winning debut, The Loney, and his third novel, Starve Acre, offers an atmospheric tale in the same tradition of English folk-horror . . . Hurley has a fine talent for evoking the menace of his northern landscapes . . . an enjoyably chilling tale for a wild winter night
Observer
Andrew Michael Hurley has been carving out a niche for himself as a notable writer of modern gothic since the success of his Costa winning debut, The Loney, and his third novel, Starve Acre, offers an atmospheric tale in the same tradition of English folk-horror . . . Hurley has a fine talent for evoking the menace of his northern landscapes . . . an enjoyably chilling tale for a wild winter night
Observer
An uncanny, unnerving work of rural Gothic . . . Starve Acre is a very fine novel, and quite a singular reading experience . . . the final third of Starve Acre is one of the most unnerving things I've ever read
Irish Independent
An uncanny, unnerving work of rural Gothic . . . Starve Acre is a very fine novel, and quite a singular reading experience . . . the final third of Starve Acre is one of the most unnerving things I've ever read
Irish Independent
A nerve-shredding feat of compression
The i
A nerve-shredding feat of compression
The i
Startlingly and daringly original, a story that shivers itself deeply into the consciousness
David Park, author of the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Travelling in a Strange Land
Startlingly and daringly original, a story that shivers itself deeply into the consciousness
David Park, author of the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Travelling in a Strange Land
One of the most interesting and eerie writers of contemporary horror
The Scotsman
One of the most interesting and eerie writers of contemporary horror
The Scotsman
A perfectly pitched tale of suspense and the dark side of folklore
Press Association
A perfectly pitched tale of suspense and the dark side of folklore
Press Association
The best closing line of any novel we have read this year . . . A strange and unsettling read
The Times, Fiction Book of the Year pick
The best closing line of any novel we have read this year . . . A strange and unsettling read
The Times, Fiction Book of the Year pick
Hurley shows himself a master of both murky menace and graphic prose
Sunday Times, Fiction Book of the Year pick
Hurley shows himself a master of both murky menace and graphic prose
Sunday Times, Fiction Book of the Year pick
Hurley is a graceful, confident stylist and for this reason alone he is a joy to read
Guardian
Hurley is a graceful, confident stylist and for this reason alone he is a joy to read
Guardian
One of the most interesting and eerie writers of contemporary horror
Independent
One of the most interesting and eerie writers of contemporary horror
Independent
Hurley shows a wicked sense of control, masterminding a genuinely unsettling final act that runs to the very last sentence
TLS
Hurley shows a wicked sense of control, masterminding a genuinely unsettling final act that runs to the very last sentence
TLS
A spookier take on parental guilt came from Hurley's chiller Starve Acre, about a couple mourning the death of their nightmare-plagued five-year-old in the Yorkshire Dales
Daily Mail, Books of the Year
A spookier take on parental guilt came from Hurley's chiller Starve Acre, about a couple mourning the death of their nightmare-plagued five-year-old in the Yorkshire Dales
Daily Mail, Books of the Year
This sensuous and vivid gothic terror tale, set in a haunted house, is the best novel yet
Sunday Times
This sensuous and vivid gothic terror tale, set in a haunted house, is the best novel yet
Sunday Times