The Violence
by Delilah S. Dawson
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Pub Date 27 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 4 Oct 2022
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Description
A provocative, timely, heart-wrenching thriller that will appeal to fans of Naomi Alderman’s The Power and Christina Sweeney-Baird’s The End of Men.
When Chelsea Martin kisses her husband hello at the door of their perfect home, a chilled bottle of beer in hand and dinner on the table, she may look like the ideal wife, mother, and homemaker—but in fact she’s following an unwritten rulebook, carefully navigating David’s stormy moods in a desperate nightly bid to avoid catastrophe. If family time doesn’t go exactly the way David wants, bad things happen—to Chelsea, and to the couple’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Ella. Cut off from all support, controlled and manipulated for years, Chelsea has no resources and no one to turn to. Her wealthy, narcissistic mother, Patricia, would rather focus on the dust on her chandelier than acknowledge Chelsea’s bruises. After all, Patricia’s life looks perfect on the surface, too.
But the façade crumbles when a mysterious condition overtakes the nation. Known as the Violence, it causes the infected to experience sudden, explosive bursts of animalistic rage and attack anyone in their path. The ensuing chaos brings opportunity for Chelsea—and inspires a plan to liberate herself and her family once and for all.
Advance Praise
"The Violence in The Violence might be contagious, but what you really catch here is the anger—so righteous, and so right here, right now. Delilah Dawson might have written the novel that defines this era."—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
“A staggering, masterful tale of survival and redemption during a literal epidemic of violence. Dawson is a storyteller working at the top of her class.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers
“A gorgeously creative and surprisingly gleeful story about the way violence infects every aspect of American life.”—Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbours
“A paean to the resilience of women . . . As the characters in this novel fight for their lives in a pandemic-cursed hellscape, The Violence could not be more of-the-moment.”—Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Deep
“Delilah S. Dawson has crafted a pandemic thriller that’s so much more—a piercing examination of survival, courage, and self, terrifying and hopeful in equal measure.”—Peng Shepherd, award-winning author of The Book of M
“An inspiring story of self-discovery, resilience, and hope, and a page-turning thrill ride that will leave you breathless.”—Sylvain Neuvel, author of The Themis Files and A History of What Comes Next
“Horrifying and inspiring in equal measure, The Violence shines a light on the epidemic of abuse women have always endured, folded into a stellar thriller full of danger, courage, and characters who feel alive.”—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and Ararat
“With The Violence, Dawson takes no damn prisoners: a powerful, fascinating, and courageous gut punch of a book.”—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Relentless and V-Wars
“A compulsively readable fusion of domestic thriller and modern horror that shocks and surprises at every turn. A must-read!”—Kameron Hurley, author of The Light Brigade
“Visceral, thrilling . . . A novel paced like a fistfight, aching like a just-gone tooth—but there’s hope in the harrowing.”—Max Gladstone, Hugo and Nebula award–winning author
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781803362090 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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