Lucy Rose - The Lamb | Thursday 20 March, 7pm

We are enormously excited to be welcoming Lucy Rose to Collected to talk about her searingly original debut novel, The Lamb - a book that while visceral and shocking manages also to be luminous and tender, expertly using horror to explore how women swallow their anger, their desire, and their animal instincts.

Deliciously dark and shockingly bold... One of my favourite debuts in a long time

KIRSTY LOGAN

Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn...Lucy Rose's fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon

BENJAMIN MYERS

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A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.

Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot isn't at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.

But Mama's want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, little Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires and make a bid for freedom. With this tender coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts - and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.