Name: Hunger and Thirst
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Claire Fuller

Hunger and Thirst 

From the celebrated author of Bitter Orange and Swimming Lessons comes an eerie and captivating new novel of complicated friendship and the desperate, sometimes disastrous need to belong. 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and--delightfully-- some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can't resist this hodgepodge family. But as Sue's behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry--for food--and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend's terrible dare. And, for this, Ursula finds herself literally haunted. Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker, Emma Zahini who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula's whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without. From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.

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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book. <br /><br />This book was…interesting. It’s hard for me to rate because it has a lot of potential, but I got kinda confused with the timeline and when it was the past vs present? I would recommend it to someone who is new to horror and I’m sure many will love it, but I just couldn’t get into it fully as I had hoped.

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