Edith Holler

An extraordinary achievement: funny, troubling, playful, magical and vastly energetic - sometimes all at once. Edith herself is a fierce, strange creature and entirely unforgettable. Hold on to your hat - and avoid the Beetle Spread

An extraordinary achievement: funny, troubling, playful, magical and vastly energetic - sometimes all at once. Edith herself is a fierce, strange creature and entirely unforgettable. Hold on to your hat - and avoid the Beetle Spread

Edward Carey excels in writing - and drawing! - peculiar characters, and the cast he creates for the macabre and fun Edith Holler is no exception

Singular - a dark delight from beginning to end

Eldritch, raucous, blistering, beautiful, totally indelible

An enjoyably uncategorisable and atmospheric book, a richly dark and idiosyncratic fairytale for grownups.

Set in a Norwich that is at once fictional, historical and fantastical, he transports the reader into the world of brilliant 12-year-old Edith who is cursed to never leave her family's tumbledown theatre ... until fate decides otherwise. Filled with the author's witty, curious observations and alive with his own illustrations, it's a novel like no other.

Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, England. He is a novelist, visual artist, playwright and director. He is the author of four novels, including Little, which was a Times and Sunday Times book of the year, and the YA series The Iremonger Trilogy. Edward lives in the United States and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.