The Garden

A fairy tale which gets you by the throat and doesn’t let go. The Garden is both a horror story and a meditation on love at the end of the world. It’s a testament to Newman’s extraordinary gifts that its creeping dread never overwhelms its tenderness. The cool restraint of the writing only compounds its devastating power.

Emerald Fennell

I was enchanted by this spooky, dreamy novel. Expansive and claustrophobic in equal measure, THE GARDEN is an eerie testament to the power of narrative to shape our reality—and the lengths we’ll go to in order to protect what we believe.

Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart

A gothic novel of weird sisters in the vein of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Nick Newman’s alluring debut twists and slithers into its own mysterious, compulsively readable shape. I loved it!

Mason Coile, author of William

'A dreamy, evocative novel that reads like a grown-up fairytale. Just like the garden that Evelyn's tends, this story grows in meaning with every word. It asks the big questions about what makes us who we are and who to trust. And, like the best fairytales, the answers are often as dark as they are revealing.

Araminta Hall, author of OUR KIND OF CRUELTY

With shades of Shirley Jackson and Susanna Clarke, THE GARDEN is a shapeshifting fable that will stay with you long after you leave it behind.

Sara Flannery Murphy, author of THE POSSESSIONS, GIRL ONE, and THE WONDER STATE

The Garden is a seductive modern fairytale that glitters with menace and mystery. Newman writes beautifully about isolation, confinement and contagious fear, while tending a plot that is as tangled and twisty as Evelyn and Lily’s beloved wilderness. This is a gorgeously imagined novel about growth, retreat and the sacrifices we make to protect our beliefs - and the people we love.

Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters

This climate-change horror story, reminiscent of John Wyndham, combines a bleak message and often brutal action with absolutely exquisite writing

Daily Mail

A dark, fairy tale-like novel of creeping dread

i Newspaper

Part fable, part literary thriller, wholly unmoored from genre convention, The Garden may be the elusive inheritor to the weirdness of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi.

Vulture

[A] shape-shifting novel, an enigmatic fable. . . Newman's gifts lie in the quiet accumulation of his novel's unsettled atmosphere, its changeable nature. . . This eerie, thought-provoking novel combines sisterly love and end-of-the-world horrors in an unforgettable pair

Shelf Awareness

'[An] intriguing mix of psychological mystery and dystopian gothic.

Guardian

An uneasy and brilliantly drawn folie à deux ... like Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle

SFX