Butcher

‘A ghastly and harrowing page-turner … Faint of heart? Stay away’ Stephen King, via X

‘A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare … A triumph of style and brio’ Financial Times

An empathic and discerning commentary on women’s rights, the abuses of patriarchy and the servitude of the poor and disenfranchised’ The New York Times Book Review

‘Butcher is vivid and compellingly drawn, its prose scalpel-sharp … Oates remains a master storyteller with her finger on the pulse of humanity, forever alive to its moral failures and flaw’ iNews

‘Terrifying, Oates’ storytelling so effective that at times I found myself averting my eyes from the words on the page’ Flaunt

’A creepy, circuitous tale … splendidly written’ Kirkus

‘Oates’ writing is so deft and the world she creates so vivid, one keeps turning the pages, all the way to the deeply unsettling ending’ The New York Journal of Books

‘Butcher is JCO at her best … an essential text for understanding America’s long war on women’ CrimeReads, ‘The Best Historical Fiction of 2024’

‘Humour doesn’t get more macabre than this’ Sophie Mackintosh, Literary Review

Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:

‘One of the greatest — and most productive — living American writers’ Financial Times

‘Oates is a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock the other contenders for the title of Great American Novelist’ Guardian

‘[A] notoriously prolific chronicler of America’s cracked, calamitous heart’ Esquire

‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ The New Yorker

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.