An Irish Times Best YA Read for Halloween
A Guardian Book of the Month
A Foyles Halloween Highlight
A School Reading List Recommended Read
An Armadillo Magazine Spooky Reads Selection
A Bounce Book of the Year
Featured on The Folklore Podcast
A Suffolk Libraries YA Novel for Halloween

‘In the prosperous village of Maimsbury, everyone accepts that a farm animal drowned in the river buys a year’s prosperity. Until a Brim Year brings greater riches, and demands a greater sacrifice … This creepy, compelling YA folk horror boasts a transporting sense of ritual and place.’
Imogen Russell Williams, The Guardian

‘Creepy and thought-provoking.’
Claire Hennessy, The Irish Times

‘Gripping, gruesome, dark and dripping’
A.F. Harrold

‘A gripping tale infused with dark secrets and superstitions’
Phil Hickes

‘What a story! Properly creepy Wicker Man vibes with seemingly effortless world building and characters you’ll take to your heart. Loved it’
Jennifer Killick

‘This gruesomely imagined folk horror is the most brilliantly dark and dangerously fun book I’ve read all year’
Keith Gray

Thirst is available from bookshop.org, your local bookshop and the usual online places.