Rainforest

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781398723207

Price: £20

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Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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‘Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!’ Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding

ENTER – AND YOU’LL NEVER BE THE SAME

Mexico, 1973


Simon Corbett has come to the jungle the way people do: to salvage a ruined career, and outrun a past he cannot face.

But the forest is no refuge.

As he ventures deeper, his days lose their edges. Footsteps follow that leave no trace. The path he cuts disappears behind him.

Something is leading him off course. It’s older than the trees, watching, and hungry.

He came to the jungle to lose himself.

He may get his wish.

A terrifying supernatural tale from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver, author of Dark Matter, Thin Air and Wakenhyrst.

Praise for Rainforest:
‘Her most unsettling novel yet!’ Olivia Isaac-Henry
‘Michelle Paver at her terrifying best. A novel of masterful suspense and slow-burning horror’ Elaine Thomson
‘Phenomenal. All of the stars… Easily my top read of the year so far’ Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘The malicious uncanny slithers through the story’ Natasha Pulley
‘Intoxicatingly weird…Takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James.. I can’t wait to see what she does next!’ Sarah Pinborough
‘Profoundly wonderful storytelling’ Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance’ Carly Reagon
‘No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver’ Sharon Bolton
‘Incredible! Really was an experience like no other’ Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘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’ Rebecca Netley

Reviews

Spellbindingly creepy
The Sunday Express
In Rainforest, Michelle Paver perfectly captures the beauty and brutality of a lost Mayan kingdom, and creates the haunting backdrop to a tale of self-loathing and self-discovery...her most unsettling novel yet!
Olivia Isaac-Henry
Sinister, succulent, with a stifling sense of claustrophobia, this is Michelle Paver at her terrifying best. A novel of masterful suspense and slow-burning horror, Rainforest blends psychology and the supernatural in a sweating compelling tale that kept me up long past bedtime. I loved it.
Elaine Thomson
Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!
Bridget Collins
Terror on a grander scale
The Guardian
I basically aspirated it all in one go. That signature sense of the malicious uncanny slithers through the story and a setting that branches right away from the comparatively easy scares of the cold-weather Gothic into something that, for me, feels even more technically accomplished and clever.
Natasha Pulley
A tale of terror and beauty and wonder
The Financial Times
A tense and strangely beautiful narrative
Metro
Paver is the mistress of suspense
The Times