Michael Hartford finished reading The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward
At the turn of England's century, as the wind whistles in the lonely halls of …
I really enjoyed this, though maybe not quite as much as I enjoyed her breakout "Last House on Needless Street", with which "Rawblood" shares some structural and thematic DNA, though I found "Needless" to be a little tighter and more focused. "Rawblood" is wonderfully gothic, though also set against the trauma of the First World War and the horrors of late 19th/early 20th century medicine and psychiatry. This would pair well with A. C. Wise's "Wendy, Darling."