Rainforest

The brand-new ghost story from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver

No one does creeping dread like Michelle Paver. With Rainforest, intoxicatingly weird and also prescient, she takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James and as her number one fan I can't wait to see what she does next!

A stunning tale of love, death and what comes after set against the sumptuous backdrop of the rainforest. Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance.

No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver.

With her latest novel, Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read.

Michelle Paver is best known as a children's author, chiefly for her wonderful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, but she can turn a creepy, noirish ghost story for adults with the best. This is the tale of an English scientist in the rainforest in Mexico and his encounters with bloodthirsty spirits. As ever with Paver, this is based on thorough research into the terrain and the folklore of the story. Oh, it's got some nice mantids too.

Rainforest is a powerful and scary tale . . . freighted with unquiet spirits and hallucinatory potions and set at a time when white travellers had scant respect for either the terrain or the people who had lived in harmony with it for centuries . . . skilfully woven into a sumptuous and graphic evocation of the jungle in all its luxuriant and baleful glory, its beauty and its dangers, and the effect it can have on the imagination

Born in Malawi to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny 'Nyasaland Times', Michelle moved to the UK when she was three. She was brought up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford University, she became a partner in a big City law firm. She gave up the City to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer.
Successfully published as an adult author, the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness ("Wolf Brother") were her first books for younger readers, followed by her brilliant 5-part series set in the bronze age, Gods and Warriors.
On the adult side, her first ghost story, DARK MATTER, was a UK bestseller and won massive praise from reviewers and readers, as did her second ghost story, THIN AIR.
Reviews for Michelle's gothic ghost story WAKENHYRST have been stellar - "Her finest novel yet" says The Times... ""What a story it is", says The Observer - "Wakenhyrst is brilliant, spanning Fen devils, mystics and the lot of women in Edwardian England." WAKENHYRST is an Amazon Kindle bestseller.