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Beth
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They/Them | 18 | Lesbian🏳️‍🌈

Avid Classic + Modern Lit fan/ doodler/ baker/ writer/ film nerd. This should be a way of putting all my hobbies into one place, probably wont be.
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Just finished reading Starve Acre- possibly one of the best gothic horror books that I've read so far, with an absolutely brilliant ending. 10/10
A book with a red, block printed hare with a white background on the cover and the title "Starve Acre", it's author, Andrew Michael Hurley. There is also a review by Roddy Doyle, saying its "genuinely brilliant and disturbing" A blurb, which reads: "The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror." There are also three reviews on it, the first being from the Times- "the best closing line of anh novel we have read this year... A strange and unsettling read" The second being from the Guardian- "Hurley is a graceful, confident stylist... A joy to read" The third from TLS- "Hurley shows a wicked sense of control, masterminding a genuinely unsettling final act that runs to the very last sentence"
June 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM