Wise Creatures

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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

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'Deirdre Sullivan handles darkness in a way that instills addictive dread, but also, somehow, hope.' - Sarah Maria Griffin, author of SPARE AND FOUND PARTS

'Sullivan has an eye for the uncanny, a taste for the macabre, and a gift for beautiful prose.' - Louise O'Neill

Author Bio

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.