7/5/2023 0 Comments Rawblood by catriona ward![]() ![]() Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny. Sharply evoked particulars-Devon’s landscape and period medical science emerge with special vividness-help root the spectral phenomena. Later, new viewpoints, spanning the years from 1839 to 1919, focus on the family’s women as each negotiates the powerlessness of her situation and time. A flashback to 1881, related by Charles Danforth, a doctor privy to Alonso’s complex past, reveals other horrors. As WWI begins, Iris violates her father’s interdictions with horrific repercussions for both of them. ![]() She believes that a rare disease necessitates their seclusion at Rawblood, their Dartmoor estate, but as she matures, Alonso reveals the truth: isolation is the only way to save Iris from a ghostly presence that destroys the Villarcas when they fall in love, marry, or have children. ![]() Born in England in 1899, Iris Villarca, the principal narrator of Ward’s superb debut, grows up without human company, except for Tom Gilmore, a farmer’s son with whom she forms a secret bond, and her father, Alonso, the only other surviving Villarca. ![]()
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