A delicious, diverse, genre-bending gothic, as smart as it is spooky

Catherine House is a deliciously sinister novel that bristles with an unsettling glamour. It’s almost impossible not to be seduced by Elisabeth Thomas’s beautiful writing and the intoxicating world she has created

[A] delicious literary gothic debut

Echoes of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go contribute an intriguing undercurrent to this unsettling gothic concoction

This has to be one of the most gripping books I’ve read this year... The read feels claustrophobic, decadent, extreme and sad in equal measure, and I was amazed by the plot

This suspenseful read is a terrific debut

Gothic horror provides the architecture for an arrestingly strange melange of speculative fiction and teen trauma in this atmospheric debut novel . . . nibbling menace spurs the plot onwards

A brilliantly observed tale brimming with subtle malevolence. An atmospheric, hypnotic delight

Thomas’s debut novel is a dark, delicious gothic read that hits all the right spots in the best way. If you want a book you can’t put down for even a second, this is it

Spellbinding… Surreal imagery, spare characterization, and artful, hypnotic prose lend Thomas’s tale a delirious air, but at the book’s core lies a profound portrait of depression and adolescent turmoil. Fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will devour this philosophical fever dream

Moody and evocative as a fever dream, CATHERINE HOUSE is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step

Catherine House is a haunting, atmospheric reflection on the discovery of self and others. At times terrifying, always gorgeously captivating, Thomas’ debut is one not to be missed, and perhaps to be revisited frequently