![]() ![]() After this she learns from him that there is in fact a disease that runs in the family that is much worse than the made up one. She accepts the offer, but as time passes Iris begins reading in medicine books and finds out that her father has made up his statements about horror autotoxicus. Iris's father discovers the relationship and tries to bribe her to stay away from Tom by paying for her tuition to medical school. ![]() Despite this restriction Iris ends up befriending Tom Gilmore, only to find that their fathers are enemies. ![]() ![]() But the father of Iris lies about this and says that Horror autotoxicus had caused her mother's death and had been a reoccurring ailment for the Villarca family. However, Horror autotoxicus, a term labelled by Paul Ehrlich, was in fact not a disease, but instead a theory about a mechanism of the human body to protect itself. Iris's father justifies this isolation by stating that he fears that she will die from Horror autotoxicus. She and her father live in a mansion named Rawblood, where he keeps her isolated from the general population. Synopsis Īt the book's start Iris Villarca is an eleven-year-old girl growing up in Dartmoor during 1910. The novel is published in the USA Maby Sourcebooks, as The Girl From Rawblood. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2015 through Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Rawblood is the 2016 debut horror novel by Catriona Ward. Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobook ![]()
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