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Xenobe Purvis was born in Tokyo in 1990. She read English Literature at Oxford University, has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and was part of the London Library's Emerging Writers Programme. She is a writer and literary researcher, currently co-editing a volume of Christopher Isherwood's selected letters. Her essays have been published by the TLS, The London Magazine, and others, as well as in collections in the US and UK. Her debut novel THE HOUNDING will be published in 2025.
Haunting and beguiling, this fever dream of a novel draws you in and colours your mind all shades of doubt and suspicion. -- Stacey Halls, author of THE FAMILIARS Xenobe Purvis has done something masterful here. The Hounding is a novel of rare grace and skill, exquisitely wrought and simmering with feral violence. This book is both lyrical and muscular; to read it is to submit to a current that every now and again pulls you under and leaves you gasping. I can't wait to devour everything she writes -- Rowe Irvin, author of LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH A haunting, dark and visceral story . . . chilling. -- Flora Carr, author of THE TOWER Haunting and melancholy and bittersweet and just the most beautiful, evocative prose. For fans of Jeffrey Eugenides, Julia Armfield and Sophie Mackintosh. -- Otegha Uwagba, author of LITTLE BLACK BOOK The Hounding is a sweaty fever-dream of a novel. The writing is gorgeous: it bristles with rage and crackles with energy. Unsettling, vivid and irresistibly readable. I can't wait to see what Xenobe Purvis writes next. -- Marni Appleton, author of I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY The Hounding is a debut novel bound to be a cult classic. It’s a tale set centuries ago that throbs with a bloody, living heart. It’s a jewel dug from the depths of Xenobe Purvis’s imagination. It’s exquisite. -- Julia Phillips, author of BEAR
