‘Deliciously dark and shockingly bold—someone needs to make this into a film right now! Lucy Rose is one to watch. This is one of my favourite debuts in a long time.’ — Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch, Things We Say in the Dark and The Unfamiliar

‘A gruesome family fairytale, a twisted love story and a meditation on human decay. I ate up every fleshy page’ — Jodie Harsh, author of You Had To Be There

‘Wild, evocative, and deeply felt, I was hooked on The Lamb from the first sentence. Reading Lucy Rose is like gently sliding your hand into the open mouth of a wolf — tender, terrifying, and exhilarating all at once.’ — Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe and The Book of X

‘Stunning, shocking and surprising at each turn – everything one would want from a novel, and so much more. Lucy Rose’s fearful and fantastic imagination is a powerful weapon.’ — Benjamin Myers, author of The Gallows Pole and Cuddy

‘A dark, fearsome novel that sticks between your teeth. Rose writes about daughterhood with poetic clarity and tenderness.’ — Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures

‘This is the book I’ve been waiting for. Dark, twisted and utterly enthralling, The Lamb is a novel I will never forget. Lucy Rose’s prose gave me chills, perfectly capturing the horrors and beauties of girlhood. Dear reader, I predict you will be as obsessed as me.’ — Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn and The Island Child

‘Lucy Rose weaves together flesh, bones and mommy issues with unsettling deftness to create an unforgettable, nightmarish tale. I ate it all up.’ — Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding the Monster 

‘Brilliantly raw and unflinching, The Lamb will lure you in and clutch hold of your heart. It’s sweet, violent and unforgettable. Margot will steal your heart and linger long after the final page.’ — Prano Bailey-Bond, writer/director of Censor

‘An extraordinary piece of work, dark, poetic, gothic, folky and full of courage and beauty. Incredible.’ — Tim Downie, actor/writer/folklorist

‘The Lamb is one of the most horrifying, beautiful, and memorable things I’ve read. It’s gorgeously written, deeply disturbing, and incredibly moving. Its landscape hums with a sense of threat, but is also shot through with an unsettling beauty. Read it, and see nature, family, and humanity through Margot’s eyes for a while, and you’ll come out of it changed.’ — Sarah Brooks, author of The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wasteland

‘A modern Grimm fairytale. Heart-wrenching and sensuously lyrical, yet sinister, depraved and stomach-churningly good.’ — Susan Barker, author of Old Soul

‘Brutal yet tender, The Lamb is a masterclass in suspense with an unflinching focus on inter generational violence.’ — Genevieve Jagger, author of Fragile Animals

‘A gruesome family fairytale, a twisted love story and a meditation on human decay. I ate up every fleshy page.’ — Jodie Harsh author of You Had To Be There

‘A dazzling and unique debut. The Lamb reeks of moss and blood – its visceral exploration of hunger, obsession, and depravity will cast a dark spell over you.’ — Ally Wilkes, author of Where the Dead Wait

‘Lucy Rose is extraordinary. I devoured The Lamb in one evening and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Poetic, visceral and wildly addictive, I dare you not to fall in love with Rose’s imagination. Consume this book and prepare for it to consume you.’ — Catherine Joy White, author of This Thread of Gold

‘THE LAMB reads like a cross between Hansel & Gretel and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But behind the horror lies a beautifully written coming-of-age story like no other with an unforgettable protagonist. Quite depraved but utterly captivating!’ — David Coates, Bookseller

‘The Lamb will lure you in and devour you whole. Lucy Rose perfectly captures the toxic wilderness of motherhood and daughterhood in this poetic and electrifying debut.’ — Rose Wilding, author of Speak of the Devil

‘If you think you might be too squeamish for a book about cannibals, think again. Lucy Rose will lure you in with beautiful prose and captivate you with this story about finding voice and agency, and what it is (and isn’t) to love and be loved.’ — Kate Kemp, author of The Grapevine

‘The Lamb is a gorgeous, lyrical, evocative, hunger-inducing, and deeply moving novel that I just gobbled up, reading it totally compulsively right to the end.’ — Nussaibah Younis, author of Fundamentally

‘The Lamb left me breathless. A beautiful, tender and disturbing novel, exploring mother-daughter relationships in a hugely ambitious and thought-provoking way. I loved it.’ — Rachelle Atalla, author of The Salt Flats

‘The Lamb is an unputdownable and unforgettable debut, deftly weaving female rage and desire, loneliness and longing for love, with haunting horror tropes. Rose is an extraordinary talent.’ — Ania Card, author of Above Us the Sea

‘Lucy Rose is not afraid, and this bold, complex, shock of a novel proves that. Deliciously drawn, this feral folktale speaks to the sinister nature of the mother wound on a visceral level. Literary horror at its peak.’ — Dawn Kurtagich, author of The Madness

‘Lyrical, poignant, unbearably tense, this is a dark folk horror that will linger long in the imagination. The observations of motherhood, girlhood, female friendships and rivalries, and the natural world are so beautifully wrought.’ — Naomi Kelsey, author of The Burnings

‘You’ve never read anything like this before. Lucy Rose has served up a bloody feast, so tender I had to devour it all at once, so raw it left me reeling – in the best possible way. Everyone’s going to be talking about The Lamb.’ — Seth Insua, author of Human, Animal

‘I haven’t read another book that gripped me from the opening of every chapter like this one does. I loved, I gagged and I grieved. Lucy Rose is an undeniable talent who was made to write.’ — Charlotte Paradise, author of Overspill

‘Visceral and aching, The Lamb is a magnetic, monstrous tale of womanhood and desire. I devoured it, hungry for each and every word. Margot is going to haunt me forever.’ — Victoria Hawthorne, author of The Darkest Night

‘THE LAMB is a magnificent debut. Brutal yet tender, a dark fairytale pierced with light. Lucy Rose’s writing is beautifully rendered, and her storytelling skills navigate the deepest intricacies of mother daughter relationships with an elegant hand that drips blood. THE LAMB is a game-changer in the horror genre, and I will be thinking about it for a very long time.’ — Emma Cowing, author of The Show Woman

‘I absolutely devoured Lucy Rose’s The Lamb. It was macabre and wickedly captivating from the opening pages. It reminded me of Strange Sally Diamond and Dog Rose Dirt. Twisted, cunning, and deliciously dark, I ate it all up.’ — Jo Morey, author of Lime Juice Money

‘A gruesome yet illuminating coming-of-age story that will keep readers awake night after night.’ — Kirkus

‘Rose debuts with a potent and grotesque tale…. Rose’s portrayal of the cannibalism feels at once vividly real and metaphorical, satisfying both as horror and as a portrait of the dark side of feminine rage. This modern folktale hits hard.’ — Publishers Weekly

‘It is rare that a debut author announces themselves with work as fully-formed, fully realised and stylistically singular as Lucy Rose with The Lamb. A dark gothic tale that has as much in common with the Brothers Grimm as with Shirley Jackson or Julia Armfield. Rose has created a disturbing novel of love—in its most pure, but also most twisted forms—innocence, obsession and coming-of-age.’ — Foyles

‘…a brutal meditation on motherhood, feminine rage, and what it takes to survive. It’s equal parts scathing and sentimental.’ — The Booklist

‘…This is the genius of Rose’s folktale: She blurs the lines between hunger and gluttony, human and animal, love and revulsion. It’s hypnotic, grotesque and beautiful all at once.’ — Bookpage

‘The Lamb’ is written in terse and pared back language then it bubbles like a simmering stove towards a memorable and nightmarish conclusion.’ — The Irish Examiner

‘This is a bizarre coming-of-age novel, describing visions of girlhood in all its viscera, never shying away from the anger or abjection its characters experience. This novel explores consumption in all its forms, detailing a literal hunger as well as the toxic desperation of codependent love. A strange and bold debut from an exciting new voice…‘ — The Skinny

‘Lucy Rose can certainly write. She has a flair for Grand Guignol and expert pacing, cranking up the tension as ever greater risks are taken and flesh is sourced dangerously close to home. The Lamb grips all the way to an unexpected denouement that is as comfortless as it is eerie.’ — The Guardian

‘[The Lamb] is a hard tale to shake.’ — The Observer

‘[a] gleefully gruesome tale… Femgore at its finest.’ — People Magazine

‘…beautiful, terrifying….Rose’s novel feels destined to become a classic…’ — The Washington Post

‘A nightmare fable… A troubling fever dream of a book that nevertheless compels you to follow it into the shadows.’ — The Herald

‘…dark…possessive… It is sensual, cunning, heart and gut-wrenching.’ — Dubray Booksellers

‘A superbly creepy folk-horror tale . . . at heart it’s about dysfunctional family dynamics, female rage and empowerment’ — Financial Times

‘…eerie.’ — The Times

‘What makes this twist on “Hansel and Gretel” particularly unsettling is the twilight world it occupies between the “safe” remove of folk tale and the clinical glare of realism. Rose’s incantatory prose eases us into Margot’s skewed perspective as skillfully as Mama coaxes strays into her home… Rose’s parable gradually winds toward a conclusion as hard to shake as its opening. While the title dares us to read “The Lamb” as a Christ allegory, this dark, gorgeous concoction is layered with insights into the insidious perpetuation of family violence.’ — The New York Times

‘Tucked away in this wood is a story of enchanting hunger that will leave you deliciously sated and horribly heartbroken. In the hands of Lucy Rose, you’ll never go hungry.’ — Chicago Review of Books