Woodworm by Martinez, Layla

Author: Martinez, Layla

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 2 May 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Harvill Secker) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 144 pages
205 x 135 x 15 | 230g

Tense, chilling MARIANA ENRIQUEZ’Lays bare intergenerational horror, feminine rage and the taking back of power’ STYLIST’Incredible’ FINANCIAL TIMESThe house breathes.

The house contains bodies and secrets.

The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes.

Nobody ever leaves.

The house was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter cant leave.

They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy from a local wealthy family draws unwanted press attention, the two i