{"product_id":"the-cherry-robbers","title":"The Cherry Robbers","description":"Review\n\nWonderful ... I highly recommend ... a book one doesn't want to put down' -- Sarah Jessica Parker\n\nHooray! Sarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal. -- Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different\n\nA twisted take on the artist's coming-of-age story, The Cherry Robbers tackles deep questions about marriage, sexuality, familial loyalty, guns and the artist's life-a witty, delicious, demented joyride. -- Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley\n\nSarai Walker's debut novel does something few contemporary writers - whether green or seasoned - have managed to do well: Dietland is a searing feminist manifesto, a hardcore, politically-charged criticism of the unavoidable ills that plague women today. But, guess what? It's also fun. ― Bustle\n\nPraise for Dietland:\n'If Amy Schumer turned her subversive feminist sketches into a novel, dark on the inside but coated with a glossy, palatable sheen, it would probably look a lot like Dietland - a thrilling, incendiary manifesto disguised as a beach read.' ― Entertainment Weekly\n\nThis feminist Gothic thriller whisks readers from New Mexico in 2017 to Connecticut in 1950, straight into the bull's-eye of a firearms dynasty. ― The New York Times 18 works of fiction to read this spring\n\nWalker creates a dazzling world filled with the scents and colors of flowers that will later become the foundation for Sylvia's subversive paintings. Just as subversive is the swirl of voices of the women at the story's center: The Chapel women may be locked away in castles and sanitariums by a series of domineering men, but their unfulfilled longings haunt these pages as powerfully as any family curse -- Aamina Ahmad ― The New York Times Book Review\n\nWalker plays along with the feminist gothic form, with the idea of a family curse, and we cannot but play along, caught up in the suspense to the inevitable end ― Saga magazine\n\nA riveting, gothic page-turner... evocatively captures the\ntempo, languor and decadence of the ivory tower in which the sisters\nare trapped... a dazzling world... their unfulfilled longings haunt these pages as powerfully as any family\ncurse ― The New York Times\n\nWalker's take on the classic Gothic tale fairly shimmers... a heady concoction of terror and desire... fever-pitched\nemotions... dark with smothering melancholy and macabre spectres. ― Booklist\n\nExquisitely tense and satisfyingly spooky... masterfully blends psychological and supernatural horror...a darkly\nerotic exploration of female desire, duty and destiny via an ensemble of nuanced female characters, each with distinct personalities and rich inner lives...will keep readers frantically flipping pages. The Cherry Robbers is not to be missed ― BookPage\n\nDelightfully eerie mix of bildungsroman and ghost story. This uncanny tale of dark origins shines brightly ― Publishers Weekly\n\nThis gorgeously written and all-consuming gothic left me more than a little heartbroken ― BuzzFeed\n\nLong-anticipated... spooky... speaks to the author's range ― WBUR Boston\n\nEarning comparisons to The Virgin Suicides for its singularly unlucky siblings and gothic mystery ― Entertainment Weekly\n\nFilled with incredible writing, deliciously dark and gothic themes and strong female characters, this new novel is not one to miss ― The South African\n\nTakes one interesting new turn after another... a heady mix of gothic fiction and incisive art thriller ― CrimeReads\n\nSharp, gothic tale ― PopSugar\n\nThrums with violence, oppression, and blood. This fierce feminist tale hit me in the heart and hasn't let me go ― Stacey Swann, author of 'Olympus, Texas'\n\n\nProduct Description\n\n'Sarai Walker has done it again ... upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.' Maria Semple, bestelling author of Where'd You Go Bernadette\n\n'A riveting, gothic page-turner' the New York Times\n\n'Wonderful... A book one doesn't want to put down... I highly rec","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40403270828117,"sku":"9781800810303N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/66c1c055-235f-47d9-93bb-ca1cc9fa6e90.jpg?v=1667489575","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-cherry-robbers","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}