Tillinghast
There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use itā¦
Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar.
You and I would have a name for what he is, but he prefers not to use it ā he has needs, and when they become unbearable, he fulfils them.
Then the girl arrives ā 19 years old, she has travelled from the UK to find him. She seems to have his surname, and her resemblance to him is uncanny. She is sick ā very sick ā and Tillinghast recognises her symptoms all too well. Which means he also knows what she needsā¦
Darkly compelling and irresistibly readable, TILLINGHAST marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.
There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use itā¦
Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar.
You and I would have a name for what he is, but he prefers not to use it ā he has needs, and when they become unbearable, he fulfils them.
Then the girl arrives ā 19 years old, she has travelled from the UK to find him. She seems to have his surname, and her resemblance to him is uncanny. She is sick ā very sick ā and Tillinghast recognises her symptoms all too well. Which means he also knows what she needsā¦
Darkly compelling and irresistibly readable, TILLINGHAST marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.
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There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use itā¦
Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar.
You and I would have a name for what he is, but he prefers not to use it ā he has needs, and when they become unbearable, he fulfils them.
Then the girl arrives ā 19 years old, she has travelled from the UK to find him. She seems to have his surname, and her resemblance to him is uncanny. She is sick ā very sick ā and Tillinghast recognises her symptoms all too well. Which means he also knows what she needsā¦
Darkly compelling and irresistibly readable, TILLINGHAST marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.
