‘This is an exquisite book; uncanny, inventive and utterly human. Elske Rahill is arguably the most talented writer working in Ireland today’ - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
 
Laura and Marc are over in France from Ireland, grieving the recent death of their baby daughter. But then a mysterious pandemic hits, and they find themselves stranded - in a strange house in a remote part of the country.

The house and the land around it are full of mystery - there is something like a religious cult camped just down the road, and Laura and Marc soon find themselves the unwitting adoptive parents of a little girl after their neighbours mysteriously disappear in the night.

And then Carmilla, the house’s owner, arrives: a compelling, strange woman - who is not all she seems.

A really fresh, exciting take on literary horror and the vampire myth, interrogating the alienation and brutality of motherhood and grief, The Year of the Stork is an exhilarating reimagining of the vampire classic Carmilla.