Lost In The Garden

"Eerily enchanting and profoundly inventive, Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden is a dreamy and unsettling masterwork written with such care and aplomb. In this perfectly composed and dazzlingly intricate folk horror phantasmagoria, reality becomes infected while a charming and yet deeply sinister strangeness crawls from page to page, chapter to chapter. This is one of the freshest and most spiritually rewarding novels I've read in quite some time." Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke"England's overheating, death-warped countryside is a genius setting for Leslie's shamelessly unhinged novel - equal parts road trip and bad acid trip. But for all the weirdness, it's the characterisation that makes the novel so compelling: Lost in the Garden has a wit and groundedness that bring something fresh to the folk horror tradition." Matt Hill, author of Lamb"Lost in the Garden is like trying to recall a troubling and beautiful dream; it's like peering through a wound in the world; sorrowful, uncanny and utterly stunning. This book is magnificent, like nothing I've ever read before." Matt Wesolowski, author of the Six Stories series"A thousand miles from anything else you'll read this summer, Adam S Leslie's compelling and confident debut lures you in with all the beauty and menace of a cursed ice-cream van; I absolutely adored its unique blend of childlike wonder and dark, Scarfolk-esque British Weird." Ally Wilkes, author of All The White Spaces'A Swiftian phantasmagoria of post-war British folk memory, stitched together with the enchantments of British childhoods and the country's peculiar hideousness. A weird trip.' Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual"A nightmarish amble through tangled country lanes...Beautifully written, a supremely atmospheric page-turner that should delight fans of John Wyndham and Alan Garner." Bob Fischer, Fortean Times"My favourite debut so far this year." The Debut Digest"A psychedelic folk horror masterpiece... Strange, imaginative and hugely compelling, Lost In The Garden is destined to be a cult classic." Jonathan Thornton, Fantasy Hive