×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Members save with free shipping everyday!
See details
See details
14.95
In Stock
Overview
Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies.
'We came out here to begin again. We came out here for the clear air and a fresh start. No one said to us: beware of fresh starts. No one said to us: God knows what will begin.'
Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survive.
Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. She hopes their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their family. But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn child.
'We came out here to begin again. We came out here for the clear air and a fresh start. No one said to us: beware of fresh starts. No one said to us: God knows what will begin.'
Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survive.
Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. She hopes their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their family. But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn child.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781789091243 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Titan |
Publication date: | 07/02/2019 |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 780,301 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Naomi Booth is a fiction writer and academic. Her novella, The Lost Art of Sinking, emerged from research into the literary history of swooning, and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2016 as well as being selected for New Writing North's Read Regional campaign 2017. Her first novel, Sealed, is a gripping modern fable on motherhood. She is currently working on a new novel and collection of short stories, and an academic monograph on passing out. In 2018 Naomi was named in the Guardian's 'Fresh Voices: 50 Writers to Read Now'. She was also picked for the 'Not the Booker' shortlist and was long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Naomi grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in York, where she lectures in Creative Writing and Literature at York St John University.
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
Finely observed, beautifully written Daily Mail on The Secrets of Life and Death.The victim had ...
Finely observed, beautifully written Daily Mail on The Secrets of Life and Death.The victim had
been buried in a carved hollow in the grass and shrouded in fallen leaves...Archaeologist Sage Westfield has her first forensics case: investigating the murder of ...
A commemorative mini-series celebrating 10 years of Assassin's Creed and featuring the franchise's best loved ...
A commemorative mini-series celebrating 10 years of Assassin's Creed and featuring the franchise's best loved
characters!To mark 10 glorious years of Assassin's Creed, Titan Comics are bringing together the franchise's best-loved characters for a celebratory series like no other! Get ...
New adventures revealing secrets stemming from Beneath the Planet of the ApesIn Beneath the Planet ...
New adventures revealing secrets stemming from Beneath the Planet of the ApesIn Beneath the Planet
of the Apes, Col. George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) disappears into the Forbidden Zone, only to return in the film's climactic scene. For forty-eight ...
A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the ...
A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the
assassin known as Daud. Faced with the possibility that their deadliest foe has returned, Emily and Corvo plunge headlong into a life-and-death race against time. ...
Ecko is an unlikely saviour: a savage, gleefully cynical rebel/assassin, he operates out of hi-tech ...
Ecko is an unlikely saviour: a savage, gleefully cynical rebel/assassin, he operates out of hi-tech
London, making his own rules in a repressed and subdued society. When the biggest job of his life goes horribly wrong, Ecko awakes in a ...
During the Cold War of the 1950s former allies Russia and China turned communist, their ...
During the Cold War of the 1950s former allies Russia and China turned communist, their
threat casting a shadow over the free world. Yet another enemy lurked in the shadows—the deadly secret assassins of the Si Fan, led by…In remote ...
Fu-Manchu journeys to the United States for the first time, and is the power behind ...
Fu-Manchu journeys to the United States for the first time, and is the power behind
a League of Good Americans candidate for the presidency. From Niagara Falls to the catacombs of NY's Chinatown, Nayland Smith and federal agent Mark Hepburn ...
Paris 1890. Sherlock Holmes is summoned across the English Channel to the famous Opera House. ...
Paris 1890. Sherlock Holmes is summoned across the English Channel to the famous Opera House.
Once there, he is challenged to discover the true motivations and secrets of the notorious phantom, who rules its depths with passion and defiance. Sir ...