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Kat Dunn grew up in London and has lived in Japan, Australia and France. She has a BA in Japanese from SOAS and an MA in English from Warwick. She's written about mental health for Mind and the Guardian and worked as a translator for Japanese television. Kat Dunn's YA fiction has been published by Head of Zeus and Andersen Press, including Bitterthorn, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Polari Prize and nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing. Hungerstone was her hugely acclaimed adult fiction debut. Follow Kat @KatAliceDunn
A true feast for all the senses. * Cosmopolitan * This atmospheric gothic novel should only be read with the lights on. * Red magazine * A sumptuously dark gothic novel that is the sapphic retelling of Carmilla, the first vampire fiction, we all deserve . . . The story delves into themes of female autonomy, desire, and societal constraints. Dunn's atmospheric prose and intricate character development make Hungerstone stand out amongst the crowd. * Glamour * Based on the book that inspired Dracula, this is a beguiling and spellbinding story of female repression and appetite. * Heat magazine * A rich and daring reimagining that brings the beating heart of Carmilla to life again. Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel. * Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth * With writing both evocative and enchanting, Hungerstone is a horrifyingly delectable novel. A celebration of female appetite and agency, Dunn's gothic reimagining of Carmilla is ravenous, righteous and utterly sublime. * Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN * Hungerstone is an intoxicating and vivid take on the gothic novel. Sensual and vicious, Lenore's devastating story of self discovery, betrayal and power feels like one for the ages. * Hannah Kaner, Sunday Times bestselling author of GODKILLER * Phenomenal. This is a book about loneliness and longing, women trapped by the constraints of patriachy, the liberating power of sapphic desire - and most of all, hunger of all kinds. Kat Dunn writes with immense skill and tremendous empathy. * Samantha Shannon * A fabulous Gothic feast of a novel which is so gripping I genuinely struggled to put it down. This book has everything - a compulsive plot, fascinating characters, and a world so dark and atmospheric it makes the real one look drab. It is billed as a sapphic vampire novel but is so much richer and stranger than this. Lenore is one of the most compelling and morally complex characters I have encountered in recent years, and the evil Kat Dunn describes in the human world was brilliantly portrayed, acting as a dizzying foil to the darkness of the Vampire realm. It is a book which will upend your expectations of the genre and leave you wanting more. I was so sad to reach the last page! * Elodie Harper, bestselling author of THE WOLF DEN * Hungerstone is an extraordinary book: a dark, sensuous, gothic story of female appetite, ravenous desire and insatiable rage. A blood-drenched, glittering jewel of a novel that I absolutely devoured. * Jennifer Saint *
