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22 October 2015
448 pages
9781447240914
Imprint: Pan

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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.
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 brilliantly
Bleak, disturbing and terrifying - and horribly compelling.
Nevill concocts a unique, paranoid vision of dystopian drama that's nigh impossible not to get sucked into