Motherthing

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law

Gripping... A gutsy, gory mashup of domestic horror and dark humour

A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story

A dark, moving, hugely entertaining slab of gothic horror....and also very funny

A disgusting and delightful romp of a book

Filled with sharp, crackling sentences, which bend variously sinister, humorous and sad, Ainslie Hogarth's new novel is a stunner. Like Mona Awad's Bunny or Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen, Motherthing is a fabulous, frightening story built from fine, fine prose

This novel is bursting with smart, provocative, heart-breaking things to say about the nature of grief and its ability to take up just as much - if not more - physical space than the actual person lost. Motherthing is gory and irreverent and totally irresistible

A masterfully crafted horror novel that's by turns humorous and deeply unsettling... Packs a punch

Profane, insane, hilarious, disgusting - and unexpectedly moving

A smart, taut, hallucinatory book about mothers, daughters, and relationships of care. And buckets of blood.

One of my favourite books of the year so far... Sorrow and Bliss but make it haunted

Ainslie Hogarth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and has published two YA horror novels, in the U.S. with Flux Books and France in with Editions Milan. The Lonely is about a girl who is crushed by a rock and bleeds to death all day long, and The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated) is about a girl who may or may not have murdered all of her friends with a pick-axe. Her short fiction has been published in Hazlitt , Black Static , and elsewhere.