Quote:🌞 A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
🌞 "This is the book I've been waiting for. Dark, twisted, and utterly enthralling, The Lamb is a novel I will never forget."-Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn
🌞 From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary queer folktale about a mother and daughter living in the woods, for fans of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield.
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember.
When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. 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 beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden...