7/6/2023 0 Comments Rawblood![]() ![]() A flashback to 1881, related by Charles Danforth, a doctor privy to Alonso’s complex past, reveals other horrors. As WWI begins, Iris violates her father’s interdictions with horrific repercussions for both of them. She believes that a rare disease necessitates their seclusion at Rawblood, their Dartmoor estate, but as she matures, Alonso reveals the truth: isolation is the only way to save Iris from a ghostly presence that destroys the Villarcas when they fall in love, marry, or have children. ![]() Born in England in 1899, Iris Villarca, the principal narrator of Ward’s superb debut, grows up without human company, except for Tom Gilmore, a farmer’s son with whom she forms a secret bond, and her father, Alonso, the only other surviving Villarca. ![]()
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