Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different. With the dawn of the first World War, the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, and soon after, Eve's faith starts to fracture. In the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the nearby townsfolk awaken to discover a massacre on the Isle. Eve and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent? And who can be trusted?
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different. With the dawn of the first World War, the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, and soon after, Eve's faith starts to fracture. In the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the nearby townsfolk awaken to discover a massacre on the Isle. Eve and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent? And who can be trusted?
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Gothic fiction and psychological horror offer readers intricate explorations of memory, isolation, and unreliable narrative perspectives. American-born British author Catriona Ward established a wide international readership with her breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street, a psychological suspense story set on the edge of a forest in contemporary America.
Her work consistently features atmospheric dread, complex character psychology, and dark historical elements. Through critically acclaimed releases such as Little Eve, she has achieved recognition across major genre organizations.
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, D.C., to English parents. Due to her father's career as an international economist, she experienced an itinerant childhood across the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco, while frequently visiting Dartmoor. Ward earned a BA in English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, spent four years training as an actor in New York, and completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Before transitioning into full-time fiction writing, she worked for a human rights foundation. Ward lives in London and Devon. Her debut novel Rawblood (also published as The Girl from Rawblood) won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards and was featured as a WHSmith Fresh Talent selection. She subsequently won her second August Derleth Award for Little Eve, making her the first female author to receive the prize twice, alongside winning the Shirley Jackson Award.
Ward's literary approach combines classic gothic motifs with modern psychological complexity. Her narratives frequently examine themes of trauma, domestic secrecy, hypnagogic experiences, and distorted perception. By utilizing multiple viewpoints, historical settings, and tight claustrophobic environments, her fiction constructs tension around hidden truths and shifting realities.
3 books in catalog
Gothic fiction and psychological horror offer readers intricate explorations of memory, isolation, and unreliable narrative perspectives. American-born British author Catriona Ward established a wide international readership with her breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street, a psychological suspense story set on the edge of a forest in contemporary America.
Her work consistently features atmospheric dread, complex character psychology, and dark historical elements. Through critically acclaimed releases such as Little Eve, she has achieved recognition across major genre organizations.
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, D.C., to English parents. Due to her father's career as an international economist, she experienced an itinerant childhood across the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco, while frequently visiting Dartmoor. Ward earned a BA in English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, spent four years training as an actor in New York, and completed a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Before transitioning into full-time fiction writing, she worked for a human rights foundation. Ward lives in London and Devon. Her debut novel Rawblood (also published as The Girl from Rawblood) won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards and was featured as a WHSmith Fresh Talent selection. She subsequently won her second August Derleth Award for Little Eve, making her the first female author to receive the prize twice, alongside winning the Shirley Jackson Award.
Ward's literary approach combines classic gothic motifs with modern psychological complexity. Her narratives frequently examine themes of trauma, domestic secrecy, hypnagogic experiences, and distorted perception. By utilizing multiple viewpoints, historical settings, and tight claustrophobic environments, her fiction constructs tension around hidden truths and shifting realities.
