The Unworthy

Brilliant, chilling... The horror is made visceral by Bazterrica's feverish, mythic prose -- Laura van den Berg * New York Times *
Barbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget -- Lucy Rose, author of 'The Lamb'
A masterpiece of malice... keep[s] us gripped, immersed and enthralled * Daily Mail *
Brutal and aching. A perfect fever dream of a book -- Heather Darwent, author of 'The Things We Do to Our Friends'
Unflinching, uncompromising, and unforgettable. Agustina Bazterrica shines a light at the end of the brutal and bleak path we are on so that maybe, just maybe, we can turn around and forge a new one -- Paul Tremblay, author of 'The Cabin at the End of the World'
Bazterrica's world-building is perversely and unsettlingly entrancing * LA Review of Books *
A novel that revels in revulsion. It's provocative, intelligent, and deeply affecting... Just make sure to carve out an afternoon to read it - you won't want to look away * Harvard Crimson *
Chilling * Glamour *
So cinematically gruesome that it could have been written as a treatment for an A24-produced horror film... Bazterrica's novel tries something that most writers shy away from. She makes manifest the rot inside every human * Atlantic *
Wholly strange, timeless yet frighteningly timely * Vulture *
Not for the faint-hearted... The world-building impresses, and Bazterrica has an often poetic turn of phrase * SFX *
Unsettling, nauseating, and claustrophobic... Feminist horror has always interrogated the brutal mechanics of power, particularly in women's lives. International voices like Bazterrica's continue to push the genre into darker, more unrelenting territory * nb Magazine *