Don't Leave Her Alone

A haunting and cinematic exploration of motherhood

Desirée de Fez author Lizzie Davis translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Published:15th Oct '26

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For fans of The Substance and Titane comes DON'T LEAVE HER ALONE, the debut novel from Spain's most celebrated and internationally renowned horror film consultant that tells the story of a mother and two sisters - each also a mother to young children - linked by the tentacles that live inside them.

'A darkly enchanted expedition into the eviscerating oblivion of motherhood' Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch When Alba wakes up covered in blood on the floor of a shopping mall, with only fragmented memories of how she got there, she is forced to confront a truth she has long avoided.

'A darkly enchanted expedition into the eviscerating oblivion of motherhood' Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

When Alba wakes up covered in blood on the floor of a shopping mall, with only fragmented memories of how she got there, she is forced to confront a truth she has long avoided.

Meanwhile, her sister Diana struggles to balance the pressures of motherhood and work, while their mother, Carmen, remains trapped in an endless cycle of sacrifice and duty. As Christmas Eve approaches, what once seemed like ordinary family struggles transforms into a surreal nightmare.

Desirée de Fez's strikingly visceral novel is an incisive exploration of motherhood that interrogates women's struggle for autonomy and identity and ultimately forces the question: what does it take to finally break free?

'Full of tenderness and delirium, moving between suburban realism and fairy tale' Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

Being mothers and being daughters can feel like body horror and that is what Desiree de Fez's brilliant debut novel does: it turns bonds of intense love into torn bodies, glitter, and anxiety. Don't Leave Her Alone is full of tenderness and delirium, moving between suburban realism and fairy tale. -- Mariana Enriquez, author and journalist
Don't Leave Her Alone captures that special kind of neuroticism intrinsic to each family. The obligation of mothers to their daughters, of sisters to each other, erupts with enough blood and viscera to make Clive Barker proud. Desirée de Fez delivers a Christmas miracle in the darkest way possible. -- Gus Moreno, author of THIS THING BETWEEN US
Don't Leave Her Alone is an eldritch Pedro Almodovar nightmare, charting those liminal terrors found beyond the boundaries of the human body, where flesh itself is not safe -- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of DEVIL INSIDE and GHOST EATERS
Compelling to the point of hypnotic, a tender and visceral study of mothers, daughters and sisters that recalls the best of King, Enriquez and Almodóvar, but which is ultimately uniquely its own. A gem -- Virginia Feito, author of VICTORIAN PSYCHO
A darkly enchanted expedition into the eviscerating oblivion of motherhood. de Fez writes with her sharpest knife -- Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH

ISBN: 9781804443361

Dimensions: 224mm x 144mm x 25mm

Weight: 348g

240 pages