Touched

“I read it with great delight. A delicious page-turning treat.”

Barbara Trapido

“Totally wonderful. Touched makes me mindful of Dylan Thomas, it's so poetic and haunting; Joanna Briscoe is a truly lovely writer”

Penny Vincenzi

“a ghost story interwoven with crime, love and horror. It works on every level….Touched is a finely balanced creation, reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Briscoe’s prose is sensuous, poetic, light. The rhythm is delicately controlled. A strange, fascinating tale.”

Financial Times

“Touched is a gripping novella, a waking nightmare in the home counties that is both erotic and claustrophobic. There's a woozy atmosphere of menace, a satirical stab at Britain's post-war commuter-belt aspirations, and an elegant, postmodern, cine-literate twist…Touched has something of The Turn of the Screw, certainly, but with it, the brasher influence of Ira Levin, or Anthony Shaffer, screenwriter of The Wicker Man. …This is a haunting and disquieting parable”

Guardian

“that sense of suffocation and slowly creeping madness is something that Touched - the latest novella from the Hammer horror imprint - expertly mines”

Daily Mail

“An old fashioned, scary horror story”

Sunday Mirror

“Haunting novella from Joanna Briscoe…a disorientating ride”

Grazia

“A wonderfully claustrophobic horror. It's all wonderfully creepy ... Touched is thoroughly eerie, an enjoyably chilling sliver of ice on a hot summer's day”

Observer

“a spine-chilling tale of a creepy cottage and a mother’s terror”

Daily Express

“Deeply creepy”

Diva

“Briscoe builds suspense brilliantly”

The Bookbag

“Touched is a terrific little ghost story …This is an eminently accessible text, bolstered by an exquisitely composed story”

Tor.com

“a ghastly gathering sense of unease never lets up… chilling tale”

Woman & Home