The house remembers what the living forget.
The house breathes -it keeps its dead close and nobody ever leaves. A grandmother and a granddaughter live together under its roof, surrounded by the ghosts of its past. When a local boy disappears, the two women combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in the pursuit of something that resembles justice.
Woodworm is a furious, class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun, every page drenched with dread and strange beauty.
'Tense, chilling' Mariana Enriquez
'Lays bare intergenerational horror and feminine rage' Stylist
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Layla Martinez (Author)
Layla Martínez is a writer and translator from Madrid. She writes about music for El Salto, and about television for La Última Hora. Since 2014 she has co-directed the independent publisher Antipersona. Woodworm is her first novel.
Sophie Hughes (Translator)
Sophie Hughes is the translator of over twenty novels by authors such as Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. In 2021, she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize.
Annie McDermott (Translator)
Annie McDermott's translations from Spanish and Portuguese include books by Selva Almada, Mario Levrero, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ariana Harwicz and Lídia Jorge. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and longlisted for a National Book Award, and in 2022 she was awarded the Valle-Inclán Translation Prize.