The Girl from Rawblood, Catriona Ward
The Girl from Rawblood, Catriona Ward
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The Girl from Rawblood

Author: Catriona Ward

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre, Liz Pearce, Jenny Sterlin, John Keating, Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 14 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2017


Synopsis

FOR GENERATIONS, THE VILLARCAS HAVE DIED MYSTERIOUSLY, AND YOUNG.

Now Iris and her father will finally understand why …

At the turn of England’s century, young Iris Villarca walks the lonely halls of Rawblood. A curse passed down in ancient blood marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak, even death. And Iris is the last of her family’s line.

Iris forsakes her promise to her father to remain alone, safe from the world. She dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began and where it must all end …

From the sun-dappled hills of Italy to the biting chill of Victorian dissection halls, The Girl from Rawblood is a lyrical and haunting historical novel of darkness, love, and the ghosts of the past.

“A gothic tale of love and madness, this atmospheric and chilling story drew me in from the first page, and kept me up at night, until I reached the last.”—Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days

About Catriona Ward

CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She studied English at the University of Oxford, and later, completed a Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia. Ward won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel for her debut, The Girl from Rawblood, and again for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. Ward is the internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Navessa on June 18, 2018

"She comes in the night. Sometimes, in mist or fog. A woman, or once a woman. White, starved...Have you not felt her? Waiting in the shadowed places outside the lamplight, at the bottom of wells. Behind you, in long dark corridors..." I just explained this book from start to finish in full spoile......more

Goodreads review by Blair on February 23, 2022

(Review originally published on my blog, November 2015) Rawblood opens with the idiosyncratic voice of eleven-year-old Iris Villarca. She lives with her father in a lonely mansion, the titular Rawblood, on Dartmoor. There, he has convinced her of the legend of their family: the Villarcas suffer from......more

Goodreads review by La loca de los libros on April 29, 2025

"Rawblood. Sangre cruda. Mi hogar. Suena a batalla, a dolor, pero es un nombre apacible. No sé desde cuándo lleva en la familia. Rawblood somos nosotros, y nosotros, los Villarca, somos Rawblood." Para este mes de abril, y para seguir con la tradición de leer cada libro publicado por la autora, en co......more

Goodreads review by Constantine on October 14, 2021

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Horror Rawblood is the story of Iris Villarca. An eleven-year-old girl who lives with her father at their isolated house Rawblood. Iris soon finds out that there is a horrible congenital disease that runs in their family and that is why her father wants to isolate her and keep her a......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on February 24, 2017

When it comes to horror a Gothic tale has something that with all likelihood always will appeal to me. Add a mysterious family haunted by an entity just called "her" and I'm sold. THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD instantly appealed to me with its fascinating cover and interesting description. Iris and her fat......more