Rottenheart

Feed this directly into my veins. * Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of Atmosphere *Rottenheart will transport you. It’s a darkly intoxicating and fierce sapphic retelling of Hamlet, filled with longing, rage, and grief. Kat Dunn has crafted something haunting, beguiling and mesmerizing and I’m certain it’s her most extraordinary novel yet * Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb *Sinister and devastating. Rottenheart depicts vengeance as tragedy and tragedy as vengeance. It completely wrecked me. I am bereft. I want to read it again and again and again * Bea Fitzgerald, bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen *A darkly intoxicating, sinister story shot through with beautiful and delicate sapphic yearning. Kat Dunn’s writing is as vivid and immersive as ever, drawing the reader into her immaculately realised ghostly and gothic world. Hauntingly brilliant. * Jennifer Saint *Dunn’s retelling of Hamlet turns the lights on the psychological horror of the story. A gripping tale of grief and love, splendid with detail and completely transporting * Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark *Rottenheart is a gut-wrenching and lavishly written sapphic reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a feast of maternal possessiveness and the tragedy of those daughters who must strive in vain to earn a capricious love that’s meant to be unconditional. A close to the bone portrait of human cruelty, of our maddening obligation to our parents, and of loving someone whose capacity to hurt us is so primal not even death can limit it. With customary flair, Kat Dunn shines an unforgiving light on the heavy burden of being someone’s daughter * Leigh Radford, author of One Yellow Eye *A dark, sensual delight. * Heat Book of the Week *

Kat Dunn grew up in London and has lived in Japan, Australia and France. She has a BA in Japanese from SOAS and an MA in English from Warwick. She’s written about mental health for Mind and the Guardian and worked as a translator for Japanese television. Kat Dunn’s YA fiction has been published by Head of Zeus and Andersen Press, including Bitterthorn, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Polari Prize and nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. Hungerstone was her hugely acclaimed adult fiction debut.

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