The opening to The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan, published by Atlantic Books on 26th March 2020. Prologue New York, January 2018 Even now, twenty-two years since he took the photograph, he still cannot quite believe the lack of blood. The cold store isn’t a big room, maybe twenty by twenty at a push, the wall […]
the butchers
The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan
The Butchers is the new novel by UEA alumna Ruth Gilligan and is published by Atlantic Books this week. Ruth was born in Dublin in 1988 and studied at Cambridge and Yale before coming to UEA. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, and completed a PhD in English at Exeter […]
