Yvonne Battle-Felton – Curdle Creek

Description

Welcome to Curdle Creek. We’re dying to make you feel at home.

Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America governed by a tradition of ominous rituals designed to keep the residents safe.

Curdle Creek has one particularly strict policy: one in, one out. And one day, it is Osira’s turn.

Forced into the great unknown. The sinister reality of her birthplace unravels around her. As she comes face-to-face with those she believed were lost, Osira must reckon with all she has ever been told and confront the insidious cruelties of inheritance.

‘From the start, there are echoes of Shirley Jackson‘s The Lottery, but readers who think they know where this is going will be surprised, as Osira’s story has many weirder twists and turns ahead’ Guardian

‘Tautly written, utterly gripping, Yvonne Battle-Felton’s novel invites the reader into a world of mystery and mythology‘ Carolyn Ferrell, author of DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN

About the Author

Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She moved to Maryland and is currently living in Yorkshire with her family. Yvonne holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Academic Director of Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Her debut novel, Remembered, won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2017. It was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020. It was licensed in 2020 in the US to Blackstone Publishing.