Lost Girl
22 October 2015
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
Set amidst the devastation of climate change and global pandemics, Lost Girl is a dystopian nightmare from the master of horror Adam Nevill.
How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge?
It's 2053 and climate change has left billions homeless and starving - easy prey for the pandemics that sweep across the...
Details
22 October 2015
448 pages
9781447240914
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Nevill ornaments his tale of brutality and bloodshed with florid Gothic prose, like flock wallpaper gracing a torture dungeon. There's acute psychological insight amid Lost Girl's squalid inferno, and the author's vision of our near future is horribly plausible.James Lovegrove, Financial Times
Adam Nevill excels at making nightmares real . . . Nevill's portrayal of the breakdown of civilisation, mirrored by the father's own spiralling moral crisis, is unflinchingly realistic - though not without hope. The author says he wanted the novel to amend "the status of climate change from the existential to the very real", and in this Lost Girl succeeds brilliantlyGuardian
Bleak, disturbing and terrifying - and horribly compelling.Independent
Nevill concocts a unique, paranoid vision of dystopian drama that's nigh impossible not to get sucked intoStarburst