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A darkly thrilling psychological horror novel from award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan
I always thought that hauntings began with houses. They don't, of course.
It's people, isn't it? It begins with people.
If anyone knows what it is to be haunted, it's Daisy. The ghosts of her troubled past are ever present. Daisy has always done her best to shut the ghosts away. To shut away the wise creatures, who used to whisper to her from the walls of the house. To live a normal life.
But now, something is humming in the house. Something dark, and unknown. And it's targeting Nina, her beloved sister. Daisy knows that something is up. And that the wise creatures, locked away for so long, are back. And this time, who knows what they want? Deirdre Sullivan is a writer from Galway. Her 2016 novel Needlework was awarded a White Raven and the CBI Honour Award for fiction. Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of dark fairy-tale retellings, won an Irish Book Award in 2017, and her first book for Hot Key Books, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, was shortlisted for the Awards in 2019. Her most recent book is Savage Her Reply with Little Island Books, a companion title to Tangleweed and Brine. Deirdre loves reading, knitting, bodily autonomy and guinea-pigs. A haunting psychological horror novel from award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan An incisive and powerful novel that explores the results of repressed trauma and the ways in which traumatic experiences can be a sort of 'haunting' that stay with you as you navigate the world For fans of Dawn Kurtagich (And The Trees Crept In), Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House), CJ Skuse (Monster) and Krystal Sutherland (House of Hollow) Narratives around poltergeists and adolescent girls hold enduring fascination - From The Exorcist to the Conjuring films Deirdre is a two-time winner of the teen/YA Irish Book Award with SAVAGE HER REPLY IN 2020 and TANGLEWEED AND BRINE in 2017, and PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE DEATHS was shortlisted in 2019 PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE DEATHS has been optioned for television by Working Partners TV Deirdre Sullivan handles darkness in a way that instills addictive dread, but also, somehow, hope. She is a natural successor to Angela Carter - and Perfectly Preventable Deaths, a tale of rural horror, family and peril, is the Irish Gothic we deserve. This is the novel the recent Sabrina reboot wishes it could be - a thrilling, eerie exploration of sisterhood, first love and dark powers hiding out of sight. Perfectly Preventable Deaths lures you in with wit and compassion before hitting you with horror and twists worthy of Stephen King or Shirley Jackson. Nobody writes teenagers or witches like Deirdre Sullivan, and Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best novel yet. I am completely smitten with Madeline's voice and this witty, wise and weird depiction of a quiet, strange village where neither girls nor small creatures are safe from predators. Deirdre Sullivan has crafted a tale that is both achingly tender and unsettlingly creepy, a world where magic and love have tremendous power and devastating consequences. Sullivan has an eye for the uncanny, a taste for the macabre, and a gift for beautiful prose. Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best book yet. This intoxicating, skilfully crafted novel laced with sisterhood, first love and witchcraft is sure to entice fans of Angela Carter or Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood. This book, this book. Deirdre's writing is a drug, her characters crackle and the magic is so tactile you can feel rough bark and leaves under your fingers. I swallowed this whole. A dark, surreal and chilling slow-burner that'll crawl under your skin and make you wish for more Sullivan's prose bewitches in a tale featuring dark magic, supernatural predators and a plot worthy of Angela Carter I've wanted to read Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan ever since I first heard about it, in a tweet about three witchy, Irish books coming out this year (includi
I always thought that hauntings began with houses. They don't, of course.
It's people, isn't it? It begins with people.
If anyone knows what it is to be haunted, it's Daisy. The ghosts of her troubled past are ever present. Daisy has always done her best to shut the ghosts away. To shut away the wise creatures, who used to whisper to her from the walls of the house. To live a normal life.
But now, something is humming in the house. Something dark, and unknown. And it's targeting Nina, her beloved sister. Daisy knows that something is up. And that the wise creatures, locked away for so long, are back. And this time, who knows what they want? Deirdre Sullivan is a writer from Galway. Her 2016 novel Needlework was awarded a White Raven and the CBI Honour Award for fiction. Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of dark fairy-tale retellings, won an Irish Book Award in 2017, and her first book for Hot Key Books, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, was shortlisted for the Awards in 2019. Her most recent book is Savage Her Reply with Little Island Books, a companion title to Tangleweed and Brine. Deirdre loves reading, knitting, bodily autonomy and guinea-pigs. A haunting psychological horror novel from award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan An incisive and powerful novel that explores the results of repressed trauma and the ways in which traumatic experiences can be a sort of 'haunting' that stay with you as you navigate the world For fans of Dawn Kurtagich (And The Trees Crept In), Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House), CJ Skuse (Monster) and Krystal Sutherland (House of Hollow) Narratives around poltergeists and adolescent girls hold enduring fascination - From The Exorcist to the Conjuring films Deirdre is a two-time winner of the teen/YA Irish Book Award with SAVAGE HER REPLY IN 2020 and TANGLEWEED AND BRINE in 2017, and PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE DEATHS was shortlisted in 2019 PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE DEATHS has been optioned for television by Working Partners TV Deirdre Sullivan handles darkness in a way that instills addictive dread, but also, somehow, hope. She is a natural successor to Angela Carter - and Perfectly Preventable Deaths, a tale of rural horror, family and peril, is the Irish Gothic we deserve. This is the novel the recent Sabrina reboot wishes it could be - a thrilling, eerie exploration of sisterhood, first love and dark powers hiding out of sight. Perfectly Preventable Deaths lures you in with wit and compassion before hitting you with horror and twists worthy of Stephen King or Shirley Jackson. Nobody writes teenagers or witches like Deirdre Sullivan, and Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best novel yet. I am completely smitten with Madeline's voice and this witty, wise and weird depiction of a quiet, strange village where neither girls nor small creatures are safe from predators. Deirdre Sullivan has crafted a tale that is both achingly tender and unsettlingly creepy, a world where magic and love have tremendous power and devastating consequences. Sullivan has an eye for the uncanny, a taste for the macabre, and a gift for beautiful prose. Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best book yet. This intoxicating, skilfully crafted novel laced with sisterhood, first love and witchcraft is sure to entice fans of Angela Carter or Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood. This book, this book. Deirdre's writing is a drug, her characters crackle and the magic is so tactile you can feel rough bark and leaves under your fingers. I swallowed this whole. A dark, surreal and chilling slow-burner that'll crawl under your skin and make you wish for more Sullivan's prose bewitches in a tale featuring dark magic, supernatural predators and a plot worthy of Angela Carter I've wanted to read Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan ever since I first heard about it, in a tweet about three witchy, Irish books coming out this year (includi