‘Folk is absolutely stunning. I loved it. With gorgeous, incantatory prose, it submerges you in a mysterious and utterly compelling world. Its illumination lingers long after you close the book’

Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles

‘Zoe Gilbert is an utterly tantalising new voice. With Folk, she casts a powerful spell, creating a world on the page that feels as old as the hills and yet exquisitely alive. Folk is a place of elemental coastlines, dappled light and rich woodland shadow. Her characters step from those shadows, as compelling as characters from any much loved folktale. At the same time, she's a provocatively original writer, and the relationships that unfold in this rich and remarkable novel are as familiar – and as mysterious – as those bonds that sustain us all by day and keep us awake at night, wherever we dwell. To read Folk is to find oneself rapt’

Alison MacLeod, author of All the Beloved Ghosts