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Sue Rainsford

    Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer whose work delves into the unsettling and the uncanny. Her narratives explore the complex interplay between the human psyche and the external world, often focusing on visceral and dreamlike experiences. Rainsford employs a distinctive, evocative prose style, creating atmospheres that are both alluring and disturbing. Her writing challenges readers, inviting them to confront the darker aspects of human nature and perception.

    Redder Days
    Follow Me To Ground
    • 2021

      Redder Days

      • 266 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      2.9(31)Add rating

      Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they perform devotions to a world-ending event they believe is imminent. Adam keeps watch by day, Anna by night. They meet at dawn and dusk. Their only companion is Koan, the commune's former leader who still exerts a malignant control over their daily rituals. When one of the former commune inhabitants returns, everything they had known to be true is thrown into question. Dazzling, strange and incredibly moving, Redder Days is a stunning exploration of the consequences of power wielded by the wrong hands, the emotional impact of abandonment, and the resilience of the human spirit in the most hopeless of situations.

      Redder Days
    • 2018

      Follow Me To Ground

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.7(343)Add rating

      In a house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments. When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever. A poised and simmering tour-de-force, Follow Me to Ground is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.

      Follow Me To Ground