Greta and Valdin

Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be. The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunns Geek Love and Angela Carters Nights at the Circus. Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain HungerA travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?Its the summer of 97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesnt take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaws grey world, where the towns teenagers none more so than Ruth and Derek are seduced by neon charms and the possibility of escape. But beneath it all, these newcomers are harbouring a darker desire: revenge. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence thats been simmering for centuries is about to be unleashedPraise for Freakslaw:’A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy’ Guardian’Crackling with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex’ Heat’As frightening as it is seductive’ Herald’I’d kill to run away with this circus’ Michelle Tea, author of Modern TarotA queer punk masterpiece’ Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells’A strong spiritual successor to Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love’ Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl

Product Information

Author: Jane Flett
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 24/04/2025
Pagination: 368 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)
Published By: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 21
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781804992463