BUTCHER

‘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 comes an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.

The Story

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Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.

Praise for Butcher

• '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