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Wake Wood
Wake Wood
Aug 10, 2025 5:36 AM

Author:KA John

Wake Wood

The dead should never be woken

Still grieving after the death of their young daughter Alice in a frenzied dog attack, Patrick and Louise Daley leave the city to try and find some peace in the Irish countryside, and the village of Wake Wood seems like the perfect place to start again.

But the residents are guarding a terrifying secret: they can resurrect the dead. However, the rules are strict, they will bring Alice back only if she has been dead for less than a year; and, after three days, she must be buried.

Desperate to see their daughter again, even for just three days, the Daleys agree to everything. But they have been lying from the start. And by the time the villagers realise, it's too late. Alice is alive and she does not want to go back...

Reviews

An instant folk horror classic

—— News of the World

A truly unsettling nightmare

—— Bizarre

Hair-raising

—— Total Film

Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original

—— New York Times

Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original

—— The Times

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration

—— Independent on Sunday

[A] mesmeric story

—— Shortlist

Visionary...a bold and generous book

—— New York Times
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