Published by Dead Ink Books. Now available as an audiobook.

“This SF/horror hybrid shares some of the themes that power Frankenstein: fears about scientific overreach, experiments in the creation of life, and the responsibilities of parent and child to one another, alongside urgent contemporary concerns about the destruction of the natural world. The result is a disturbing novel that’s humane and weirdly beautiful.” – The Guardian

“Hill has been fusing science fiction and horror for a while, creating weird, strangely touching tales of the post-industrial future. The more he ploughs his own strange furrow, the more humane his work becomes.” – The Times

“Lamb is an exemplary work of speculative fiction that effortlessly delves into the uncanny and the horrific to describe a truly modern state of being.” – The Fantasy Hive

“Elements from the best genre fiction have been woven together to make something unique. Science fiction and fantasy collide with horror creating a tale that will undoubtedly prompt discussion. Lamb is a story about understanding the nature of grief and pain, love and loss. Hill’s poignant prose had me glued to every page.” – The Eloquent Page

“Lamb finds a strange new place where deep pragmatism, lyricism and spirituality meet. It’s a wonderful novel, bursting with ideas and emotions, beautifully brought to life.” – Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty

“Lamb is terrifically inventive, steeped in mystery and rich with vivid imagery; a disquieting and compassionate novel.” – Alison Moore, author of The Lighthouse

“An incredibly nuanced and urgent vision of the human race’s eagerness to destroy. The prose is deft and gorgeous and the subject matter slippery. This is a horrific and beautiful novel, with an almost unbearable tenderness.” – Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them

“Matt Hill is an irresistible storyteller and the creator of unforgettable images of the horrific and surreal. Lamb emerges from the tradition of visceral, visionary SF-horror that runs from Frankenstein through Annihilation – but Hill’s vision is all his own. He leads the reader into the eerie landscape of a broken-down, worn-out England, then peels away that surface to reveal the weirder truths beneath: a world where the deep roots of folklore are entangled with the nightmares of technology, and the oldest questions – about what parents and children owe one another, about what it means to live and die as a human being – become strange and new.” – Sam Thompson, author of Communion Town

“Lamb is a unique blend of the personal and the political, the kind of work that reminds us how radical science fiction can be, how well it retains the power to shock and to surprise. A road trip like no other, Lamb will leave you thrilled, changed, unsettled, and still asking questions.” – Nina Allan, author of Conquest

“Hill’s superb writing and immersive world-building held me spellbound throughout.” – E.J. Swift, author of The Coral Bones

“A gorgeous, fungus-filled work of speculative fiction.” – Naomi Booth, author of Sealed

“Hill allows the weirdness that’s inflected his recent novels to come to the fore. Like Aliya Whiteley’s Three Eight One, it comes across almost as a parable, and its tortured characters and murky setpieces will linger with me for a long time.” – Tim Major, author of Snakeskins

“A beautiful and elegiac meditation on parenting – in this case, the deep connection between a mother and son.” – Ian Mond, Locus

“I was genuinely moved by the portrayal of the relationship between the teenage protagonist and his mother, and the manner in which parental responsibility begins to shift between them as grief threatens the mother’s grip on reality. A weirdly beautiful, tender novel.” – Teika Marija Smits, author of Umbilical

‘It’s inside every parent to want to carry their child’s terror. It’s the thing they never tell you about. Watching your child grow up, watching your child learn to suffer…’

When lorry driver Dougie Alport carries out a deadly attack on his employer’s head office, the reverberations of his actions unleash a grief in his wife Maureen that threatens to reveal the secret she has spent years hiding from their son, Boyd.

Moving north to start again is Maureen’s best response. But as the walls begin to throb with mould and his mother slips from his grasp, Boyd decides to flee, finding solace with a new friend at the landfill site on the edge of town. Here, a startling discovery upends Boyd’s new life and forces him into a reckoning with his mother, her past, and his future.

A visceral story of collective memory and moss-coated horror, Lamb asks us how far we’d go to protect those we love, and how intensely we are bound to those who have come before us.

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