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'We came out here to begin again. We came out here for the clear air and a fresh start. No one said to us: beware of fresh starts. No one said to us: god knows what will begin.'

Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood. A terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survive.

Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. Surely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little family. But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn child.

©2018 Naomi Booth (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Genre Fiction Horror Psychological Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction Exciting
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What a book to read during worldwide lockdown! Booth has a great knack for capturing the linguistics and lexicon of whatever region she sets her narrative in. This is a good work of horror but unfortunately is let down by its pacing. Definitely worth a listen as it's better than a load of the other 'horror' out there.

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