Fans of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and readers who love darkish twists on classic folktales, will adore The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker. Filled with unbelievable writing, deliciously darkish and gothic themes and robust feminine characters, this new novel just isn’t one to overlook.
On her website, Walker states that The Cherry Robbers “[builds] off the gothic tradition of Shirley Jackson [and is a] riveting, deliciously twisted feminist tale, a gorgeous and provocative page-turner about the legacy of male power and the cost of female freedom”.
Talking to Molly Odintz from CrimeReads, Walker states: “I definitely wanted to disrupt the idea of ‘happily ever after…”.
And Walker has certainly turned conference on its head with this fiery feminist tackle folks tales!
WALKER’S DARK WRITING CREATES UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS
The Cherry Robbers is a wealthy novel with writing that hooks you from the primary web page. The history within the story is dense and advanced however it by no means bores the readers. In reality, as a result of the story is so thrilling, you can not assist however race by means of it.
The writing is the place Walker really shines. Without good writing, you can not have compelling characters or an thrilling story. Walker’s writing is superbly poetic and deeply touching with out being overly flowery.
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The characters are all so uniquely written that you simply really feel you understand them. They go far past the story and they stick with you lengthy after you flip the final web page. The characters and their feelings are superbly painted onto the web page by Walker in her darkish model. Overall, The Cherry Robbers is a triumph of a novel and will resonate with all kinds of readers.
SYNOPSIS – ‘THE CHERRY ROBBERS’
It’s 2017 and Sylvia Wren is one of a very powerful American artists of the previous century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There’s a cause: she’s residing beneath an assumed identification, as a result of she outran a tragic previous. But when a hungry journalist begins chasing her story, she’s confronted with the particular person she as soon as was: Iris Chapel.
Back in Connecticut, in 1950, Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They’ve grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian home, largely uncared for by their distant father and troubled mom, who believes that their home is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons.
The ladies lengthy to flee, and for many of them, the one means out is marriage. But not lengthy after the primary Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the remainder to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching penalties.
Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her household, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the household curse without end?
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MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarai Walker is the writer of two novels, The Cherry Robbers and Dietland. According to Sarai Walker’s website, Dietland has been printed in additional than a dozen nations. It was additionally tailored right into a tv sequence for AMC.
Walker has been printed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, to call a number of. She additionally holds an MFA in inventive writing from Bennington College and a PhD in English from the University of London.
The Cherry Robbers is printed by Serpent’s Tail Books and is out there for buy at Exclusive Books shops for R333.
