Possessed

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Pub Date Nov 01 2022 | Archive Date Sep 30 2022
Dundurn Press | Rare Machines

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Description

“Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale.” — GLOBE AND MAIL
Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award

From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island.


Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed — by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn’t promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped.

After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK
“Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale.” — GLOBE AND MAIL
Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award

From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic...

Advance Praise

"Jowita Bydlowska writes with such unsparing elegance about sex, violence, and desire. She’s a writer of keen psychological insight, who is not afraid to be funny and cutting about serious things." —Zoe Whittall, author of The Spectacular


"Part slow-burn psychological thriller, part claustrophobic nightmare, and all of it brushed with a tragic glaze, Possessed walks the razor’s edge that divides desire from horror. Let it pull you in, then pull you deep." —Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Residence and The Demonologist


"Sex doesn’t get hotter nor desire more unsettling than in Possessed. This is a courageous, absorbing novel by one of the most interesting writers currently at work in Canada." —Barbara Gowdy, author of Little Sister

"Jowita Bydlowska writes with such unsparing elegance about sex, violence, and desire. She’s a writer of keen psychological insight, who is not afraid to be funny and cutting about serious things." ...


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ISBN 9781459748071
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 336

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