Freakslaw

Delightful, delirious and transgressive, this book is the wildest of carnival rides, an open-mouthed kiss with the lingering taste of candyfloss and smoke. Jane Flett has created a queer punk masterpiece and we should all be so lucky to have our lives turned upside down by a visit to the Freakslaw.

Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

A shimmering blade of a book. Every sentence is honed for high delight — a captivating cast of characters, dazzling language, and so funny — but there's a smart and dangerous bite to all the campy, glittery glory. Freakslaw makes space for feminist, queer anger... and shows it a great time. We've never been so happy to roll up, roll up.

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, authors of The View Was Exhausting

Freakslaw is a cornucopia of the carnivalesque, where freaks are fabulous and weird is wonderful. Flett’s sumptuously technicolour prose is as startlingly original as it is compulsively moreish.

Carole Hailey, author of The Silence Project

Part block party, part call to arms, Freakslaw is almost a new kind of genre. Wild, raunchy, brutal – a madcap funhouse with heart.

Liska Jacobs, author of The Pink Hotel

I don't think I've read anything quite like Freakslaw before. A wild, fun house of horrors – whip smart, the sharpest writing, funny, visceral and filled with vengeance. I loved it!

Rachelle Atalla, author of The Pharmacist

A strong spiritual successor to Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Freakslaw gorgeously captures the desire to get away from places that can't contain you—and the complications of looking for escape.

Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

Holy hell, I loved this book. A carnivalesque tale spun in luscious, crackling prose, Freakslaw is the glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus. You know those books you want to roll around in, rub on your skin, and clasp to your heart? Freakslaw is one, and I can’t wait to see what Jane Flett does next.

Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger

A stampede of literary brilliance, a riot of filthy delinquency, Jane Flett's Freakslaw is – like the funfair whose story it tells – on a mission to liberate and unnerve. A well-plotted, page-turner where an unforgettable cast of characters bathe in the glow of her linguistic fireworks, Freakslaw is a one queer roller coaster you won't want to get off.

Victoria Gosling, author of Before the Ruins

A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy with believably complex characters.

Guardian

Crackling with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex, this is a vibrant and wildly entertaining read.

Heat

The zany narrative races along, stuffed with chaos, magic and fabulously unique characters. It’s brilliant on how badly society treats its ‘freaks’. Mad and fun.

Daily Mail

Warm, hazy, sensual and alive, Flett’s setting is made so rich by her darkly lyrical writing style – highly original and almost poetic, striking in the confidence and completion of its sound for a debut novel – that the novel almost physically feels as though it lasts the entire summer.

Starburst

Beg, borrow, or buy this one. Because when the Freakslaw comes to town, you want to be around for it.

British Fantasy Society

If it feels as if her debut […] is one she was born to write, then good for her. She succeeds magnificently, leaning into every queer punk excess and fantastical delight . . . A celebration of the marginalised, reframing otherness as a source of great vitality and power.

Observer

With a large cast of characters handled skilfully by the author, the overall feeling of Freakslaw is a picaresque Day-Glo nightmare of a book, a modern slice of folk horror that shows heaps of promise for the future.

Big Issue

One that I am forcing my friends to read just so we can discuss it

Grimdark Magazine

Freakslaw is nonstop freaky, witchy, outlaw, glamour misfit fantasy - adventure fantasy, sex fantasy, revenge fantasy. Geek Love meets American Horror Story meets The Craft meets John Waters. I'd kill to run away with this circus.

Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot

As frightening as it is seductive, this tale of a tightly knit band of outsiders pitting themselves against "that pulsing Calvinist heart" makes for a dark but thrillingly vibrant read.

Herald

Flett presents a bonkers, yet accurate, representation of the Shire in a sticky, nasty bottle.

Lavender Menace

Delightfully dark and experimental, a celebration of the wild pleasures of living in the world and in every variety of human body

Electric Literature