The fiercest, most powerful sapphic retelling of 2025: a story of ambition, female oppression, and unstoppable hunger . . .
Description of book
For what do you hunger . . .?
Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to the peak district, to the remote, imposing Nethershaw manor, where he plans a hunting party for the local gentry. Lenore must work to restore the crumbling manor and ready it for Henry's guests - her husband's success depends on it.
But as the couple travel through the bleak countryside, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night, Carmilla who stirs up something deep within Lenore. And before long, girls from the local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a terrible hunger . . .
As the day of the hunt draws closer, Lenore begins to unravel her past, questioning the role she has been playing all these years. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and the cravings Carmilla has awakened, soon Lenore will uncover a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . .
Set against the violent wilderness of the Peaks and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution, HUNGERSTONE is a compulsive sapphic reworking of CARMILLA, the book that inspired DRACULA: a captivating story of appetite and desire.
