Book jacket image for The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Harper

9780063374607

STARRED REVIEW

The Lamb

Lucy Rose’s horror-folktale hybrid, The Lamb, is hypnotic, grotesque and beautiful all at once.

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Review of ‘The Lamb’

Every daughter contains a part of her mother. An imprint buries deep down, binding the two together, indelible. For Margot, the young protagonist of Lucy Rose’s dreamlike, visceral horror novel The Lamb, the connection with Mama is bloodsoaked, painful and unrelenting. Can a child ever sever herself from her mother?

Mama and Margot have lived…

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