BUTCHER PB – JOYCE CAROL OATES

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN Gripping … Bravura storytelling VOGUE A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women s asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation. Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche. A ghastly and harrowing page-turner STEPHEN KING, via X A triumph of style and brio’ FINANCIAL TIMES Terrifying FLAUNT Vividly and compellingly-drawn iNEWS