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Oct 19, 2024 12:40 AM

Author:Alma Katsu

The Deep

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for the Best Novel of 2020.

'Beautifully written, thoroughly absorbing and totally terrifying.' said C.J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man

A spine-tingling novel that 'blends psychological thriller and eerie gothic ghost story to create something truly haunting' wrote the Daily Mirror

Someone - or something - is haunting the Titanic.

Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes.

Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet . . .

Bringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies, guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world's most famous tragedies.

Reviews

The way Alma Katsu weaves the true story of the Titanic and her sister ship, Britannic, with this dark, terrifying tale of possession and haunting is phenomenal. Part history, part drama, part love story, part creepy-as-heck ghost tale, with chills icier than the watery depths, The Deep is beautifully written, thoroughly absorbing and totally terrifying.'

—— C.J. TUDOR, author of The Chalk Man

At once both tragic and chilling, The Deep perfectly blends psychological thriller and eerie gothic ghost story to create something truly haunting, drawing you down into its dark depths before finally letting you up for air.

—— SARAH PINBOROUGH, author of Behind Her Eyes

Another masterly supernatural reimagining of a historical tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic and her sister ship, the Britannic. Eerie, haunting, and filled with suspense, The Deep is a whirlpool of a novel that pulls you in and doesn't let go.

—— DANIELLE TRUSSONI, author of the Angelology series and The Ancestor

An incredibly ambitious setting, prose as ornate as the boat, mood as ghostly as Gothic, and what must have been enough research to build a ship of her own . . . The Deep is thrilling, rich, frightening, unsettling, and, best of all, told from the heart . . . The Hunger was fantastic, but The Deep is divine . . . a brilliant author.

—— JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box

Elegant and eerie. Alma Katsu really is something rather special.

—— JOHN CONNOLLY

THE DEEP weaves together the true story of the Titanic and its sister ship Britannic, with a love story and a creepy tale of the supernatural.

—— SFX

An all-too-human tale of obsessive love that crosses the boundary . . . between the material realm and the spiritual.

—— Financial Times

Deftly mashes up spellbinding historical fiction, adroit commentary on class and gender, and a classic yet surprising ghost story . . . truly haunting.

—— PAUL TREMBLAY, author of The Cabin at the End of the World

This imaginative spin on the tale is full of surprises . . . a satisfyingly spooky blend of history and horror.

—— Sunday Mirror

Takes us back to the final days of the Titanic, her sister ship the Britannic, and the mysterious woman who links them both. In a haunting story of love and revenge, Alma Katsu blends the paranormal and historical fiction as only she can—a spellbinding tale where desire knows no bounds and death is only a beginning. Another fantastic story from the author of The Hunger.

—— J D BARKER, author of The Sixth Wicked Child

Alma Katsu is a fantastic writer, with a unique ability to blur the lines of history, horror, humanity, and tragedy. Think Diana Gabaldon by way of Charlaine Harris. As with her exceptional novel, The Hunger, in The Deep Katsu takes on an infamous tragedy and adds her own haunting twists.

—— MICHAEL KORYTA, author of Those Who Wish Me Dead

Katsu has once again been inspired by true-life tragedy to create a sinister story that will leave you gulping into the darkness at bedtime . . . perfect spooky reading.

—— Stylist

Like The Hunger, The Deep is historical re-imagining laced with magic and mystery. Alma Katsu adds a sweeping love story and a ghostly tale of revenge to the sinkings of RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic to tell a tale that is haunting, thrilling and utterly original.

—— DACRE STOKER, co-author of Dracul

Blending choice elements of mystery and horror into an impeccably recreated history, Alma Katsu has created a rich, haunting, irresistible novel that succeeds in rewriting the past while making it feel more ominously present than ever.

—— LOUIS BAYARD, author of The Black Tower

Carefully researched and meticulously crafted historical fiction fused with ho-hum horror.

—— Kirkus

In this clever blend of the historical and the supernatural, the author weaves the fate of the doomed ocean liner…into a terrifying paranormal tale.

—— Best Magazine

Atmospheric writing . . . a wonderful sense of time and place.

—— Books, Bones & Buffy

Intensely charged with atmosphere, dread and tension.

—— For Winter Nights blog

Reveals a chilling truth in an unputdownable narrative full of unnerving moments and with a growing, inexorable sense of foreboding.

—— Sci-fi & Scary

Katsu, an extensive researcher, has seamlessly woven true personal accounts and stories with her own brand of creeping, sinister horror leaving the reader to wonder what is real and what isn’t.

—— The Nerd Daily

An original, stunning debut! Masterful crafting of a split time-frame and utterly compelling characters will hook readers from the very first page until they finally learn the truth hiding within this chilling mother-daughter relationship. An intelligent, beguiling read that should be at the top of every reader's list

—— Wendy Walker

More than a page-turner-although it's undoubtably that - The Recovery of Rose Gold plumbs the depths of this poisoned mother-daughter relationship, asking probing questions about why we all hurt the ones we love. An explosive debut from a thrilling new voice

—— Kirsten Chen, author of Bury What We Cannot Take

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

—— Heat

Wrobel has crafted two gloriously complex characters who will swing the reader between horrified disbelief and empathy in the turn of a single page. Wrobel uses witty writing and clever plotting to ensure the reader will fly through the pages in search of the truth. It takes profound skill to craft such a twisty and darkly entertaining read, and Wrobel does it in her debut as deftly as only the best thriller writers can do

—— Amy Stuart, #1 bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water

Intelligent. Highly disturbing

—— Literary Review

Very rarely does a book like The Recovery of Rose Gold come along . . . this is a book that wastes no time in enticing in a reader and keeping them guessing until the very last page

—— Culturefly

Sinister and chilling . . . The writing flows beautifully and I felt like each character was confiding in me, trusting me with their secrets. I loved every bit of this thrilling story and the ending was brilliant and perfect. It's an amazing debut looking at the tangled web of a controlling mother/daughter relationship and a must read in my opinion

—— NB Magazine

Taut, twisted and with two terrifically toxic narrators, this thriller offers a wonderfully wicked perspective on complicated mother-daughter relationships. Gripping

—— Psychologies

Striking. Unsettling yet compelling reading

—— Oxford Times

It will make you laugh on one page, exhibiting the darkest of humour, and then make you shudder at the very next

—— Chat Special

A gritty story of truth and fantasy

—— Sainsbury's Magazine

Must read

—— Hello

I haven't come across two more unbalanced characters in books than this mother and daughter

—— Prima

Horribly riveting. At times I wanted to, but I could not put it down

—— Saga Magazine

Wrobel's claustrophobic debut explores the sinister subject of parents who deliberately make their children ill . . . Find out who's manipulating who in this clever chiller

—— Sunday Express

Deliciously icy. Wrobel's cleverly constructed plot twists and turns, undermining any sense of integrity the minute you catch a glimpse of it

—— Irish News

In vivid detail, Hope Adams illuminates life in convict quarters on a stinking, storm-soaked ship, and delves into the lives of individual women and the small tragedies that have condemned them to be sent far away, with little hope of return

—— Jewish Chronicle

A well-paced page-turner illuminating a forgotten story that reminds us how far we have come

—— Jewish Chronicle

Pulls you into the heart of its story, while celebrating redemption, rehabilitation and the good in people. All set to the backdrop of a truly fascinating slice of history

—— Phase Eight Book Club

Historical events and characters are cleverly blended into a thought-provoking tale

—— Candis

Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a gripping period drama

—— Cosmopolitan
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