Oates, Joyce CarolModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 22 May 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 352 pages129 x 198 x 23 | 240g ˜Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping ¦ Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state “ women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation. Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche. 'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X 'A triumph of style and brio'FINANCIAL TIMES 'Terrifying' FLAUNT 'Vividly and compellingly-drawn' iNEWS
