The novels
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A cult on the moors, and a family torn apart by war. Two very different books, both praised for pulling readers in and not letting go.
Reviewed and featured in
Praised by novelists Kate Hamer, Rachel Hore, Megan Bradbury, Nick Bradley and Rachel Edwards
Will lure you in, then cut to the kill
The Guardian on Foxlowe
Debut novel. Fourth Estate (UK) and Penguin (US)
Foxlowe
A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult.
Green and her little sister Blue live with the Family at Foxlowe, a crumbling house on the moors. They don't go to school. They share everything. They know the standing stones and the solstice, and they know how to keep the Bad away. There really is no reason for anyone to want to leave.
Will lure you in, then cut to the kill
The GuardianA richly atmospheric gothic debut
The Irish TimesMesmerising. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end.
Kate Hamer, author of The Doll FuneralWonderfully tense
Emerald Street
Second novel
The Light at the End of the Day
A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all.
Kraków, winter 1937. Jozef is commissioned to paint the youngest daughter of the grand Oderfeldt family. As Poland is engulfed by war and the painting is caught up in the tides of history, the family are forced to flee. A heartbreaking novel of exile, survival and how we remember what is lost.
A beautiful and tragic story of love, cruelty and loss. Wasserberg is a natural storyteller with hypnotic descriptive powers.
Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is WatchingA masterpiece of storytelling. This book broke my heart
Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the CityHaunting, magnificent and deeply personal. It will stay with you
Rachel Edwards, author of Darling
Praise for Eleanor Wasserberg
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Will lure you in, then cut to the kill
The Guardian
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Mesmerising. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end.
Kate Hamer author of The Doll Funeral
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Gorgeous and seductive… I was completely gripped
Flynn Berry author of Under the Harrow
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A richly atmospheric gothic debut
The Irish Times
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Wasserberg is a natural storyteller with hypnotic descriptive powers
Megan Bradbury author of Everyone is Watching
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Psychologically acute and emotionally absorbing
Rachel Hore author of Last Letter Home
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A masterpiece of storytelling
Nick Bradley author of The Cat and the City
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Haunting, magnificent and deeply personal
Rachel Edwards author of Darling
Fourth Estate Penguin
About the author
Eleanor Wasserberg is the author of two novels. Her debut, Foxlowe, the story of a girl raised in a cult on the moors, was published by Fourth Estate, the literary fiction imprint of HarperCollins, in 2016, and by Penguin in the United States, and was reviewed in The Guardian, The Irish Times and Vox.
Her second novel, The Light at the End of the Day, also published by Fourth Estate, follows a Polish Jewish family scattered by the Second World War.
She read English and Classics at Oxford and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has appeared in conversation with the writers Kim Sherwood and Dan Richards. Her work has been featured in the UK, Ireland, the United States and Australia.
She teaches creative writing in Stroud and mentors novelists across the UK and beyond.
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