Book Launch – Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Fri 7 Mar 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cove Park, G840PE
Description
On Friday 7 March, Cove Park will host a launch event for Carrion Crow, a new novel by Glasgow-based writer and former resident Heather Parry. Heather will discuss her new book with writer Cailean Steed followed by an audience Q&A and opportunity for book signing.
About the book:
Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cécile, who is concerned about her engagement to an older, near-penniless solicitor, Mr Lewis, and wishes to educate her daughter on ‘proper’ married conduct – lest she drag the family’s good name into disrepute. But why is Marguerite pursuing the aged Mr Lewis in the first place? Why are her mother’s visits seemingly becoming less frequent? And just how much time has passed since the lock closed on the attic’s hatch?
‘One of the most important new voices in fiction…A festering Edwardian nightmare dressed in exquisitely tailored language, Parry’s vision is magnificent and devastating.’
ALAN MOORE, author of Watchmen
‘Carrion Crow
picks at the scabs of class, sexual liberty and body autonomy in Victorian London and chews them over with grotesque attention to detail. Sharp, claustrophobic and undeniably gross…a punk Sarah Waters.’ ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller
The event is free, but places are limited – please book a seat for all those planning to attend. Refreshments will be served. If you have questions about event accessibility, please get in touch with Senior Producer – Awarded Producer, Alex Marrs.
Heather Parry is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She is also the author of a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You, and a short nonfiction book, Electric Dreams: On Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism, and writes the Substack general observations on eggs. She was raised in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow with her partner and their cats, Fidel and Ernesto.
Cailean Steed is a writer, teacher and aspiring dog owner, and lives near Glasgow with their husband and son. They have also resided in Aberdeen and Dublin, and hope one day to live somewhere with less rain. Their debut novel Home was published by Raven Bloomsbury in 2023. Cailean’s short stores have been published in anthologies such as New Writing Scotland 36: With Their Best Clothes On, and Boudicca Press’s Disturbing the Beast: an Anthology of Weird Fiction by Women. Their audiodrama RealBoy was the winner of the 2020 Pen to Print Audioplay Award.
Location
Cove Park, G840PE