Catherine House

A delicious, diverse, genre-bending gothic, as smart as it is spooky – Chloe Benjamin
Catherine House is a deliciously sinister novel that bristles with an unsettling glamour. It’s almost impossible not to be seduced by Elisabeth Thomas’s beautiful writing and the intoxicating world she has created * Louise O’Neill *
[A] delicious literary gothic debut * New York Times *
Echoes of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go contribute an intriguing undercurrent to this unsettling gothic concoction * Daily Mail *
This has to be one of the most gripping books I’ve read this year... The read feels claustrophobic, decadent, extreme and sad in equal measure, and I was amazed by the plot * Woman’s Way *
This suspenseful read is a terrific debut * Woman’s Weekly *
Gothic horror provides the architecture for an arrestingly strange melange of speculative fiction and teen trauma in this atmospheric debut novel … nibbling menace spurs the plot onwards * Observer *
A brilliantly observed tale brimming with subtle malevolence. An atmospheric, hypnotic delight * Irenosen Okojie *
Thomas’s debut novel is a dark, delicious gothic read that hits all the right spots in the best way. If you want a book you can’t put down for even a second, this is it * Forbes, 10 most anticipated books of 2020 *
Spellbinding… Surreal imagery, spare characterization, and artful, hypnotic prose lend Thomas’s tale a delirious air, but at the book’s core lies a profound portrait of depression and adolescent turmoil. Fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will devour this philosophical fever dream * Publisher’s Weekly *
Moody and evocative as a fever dream, CATHERINE HOUSE is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step * Washington Post *
Catherine House is a haunting, atmospheric reflection on the discovery of self and others. At times terrifying, always gorgeously captivating, Thomas’ debut is one not to be missed, and perhaps to be revisited frequently * Booklist *

Debut author Elisabeth Thomas grew up in Brooklyn, where she still lives and now writes. She graduated from Yale University and currently works as an archivist at a modern art museum.

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