Praise for A Botanical Daughter:
“A heartwarming story of queer love and a creeping gothic… heaps of wit and whimsy… this unusual, cottage-core horror novel is sure to find fans.”
Publishers Weekly
“With touches of sly humor and plenty of moody atmosphere, this incisive blend of ecohorror and gothic fiction will resonate with fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2022) and T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead (2022).”
Booklist
“This book is the most fun a reader can have while still gritting their teeth in fear! Enchantingly eerie and upsettingly lovely, A Botanical Daughter is an intoxicating hybrid of blood, botany, and old-timey charm.”
Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed with Us
“Ripe, lush, and bursting with beauty and horror, A Botanical Daughter will delight, amuse and terrify, all while breaking your heart. Perfect for readers who can imagine Frankenstein as created by the characters of Good Omens in the Garden of Eden.”
Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Bloom
“Macabre and magnificent. Horrifying and hilarious. Oddly and unquestionably heart-warming. A delightfully gruesome and rather brilliant debut from Noah Medlock. A viciously violent Victorian romp that would have Mary Shelley saying ‘Damn!’”
Angela (A.G.) Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns
“Medlock invites readers into a rich and sumptuous world in a dark and charming novel full of macabre delights. The perfect blend of classic science fiction and horror, wrapped around a core of found family, love, and heartbreak – this story hits all the right notes.”
A.C. Wise, award-winning author of Wendy, Darling
“Deliciously arch and bursting with eccentricity, A Botanical Daughter starts its uncanny life as a cosy-yet-macabre look at found family. Soon, however, it grows, steadily and with skill, into a vegetal monstrosity, forcing us to look – not without a shiver – at the horrifying ‘other’ and the boundaries of personhood. An extraordinary debut.”
Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces
“This flourishing horticultural horror could only be the monstrous byproduct of a mad phytologist, Mary Shelley grafted onto Jeff VanderMeer, a gothic greenhouse of sporror that reaches down deep into the substrata of the reader’s subconscious and eternally takes root. I absolutely loved it.”
Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters
“A dreamlike green Frankenstein. Medlock’s debut is full of uncertainty and charm, where wonder and suspense grow entangled with each other in a book that grips you tight. A captivating weird gothic.”
Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
“Medlock’s fertile imagination has given rise to a neo-gothic novel that twines ideas of life, death, and humanity together in an inexorable, fecund embrace. Beautifully macabre and monstrously, joyously queer, A Botanical Daughter wrapped its tendrils around my heart and slowly squeezed until I was quite short of breath. Expect it to grow on—and in—you.”
Trip Galey, author of A Market of Dreams and Destiny
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