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Books by Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based author of the novels Orpheus Builds a Girl and Carrion Crow. In 2025 The Skinny named her as one of the ‘Next Generation of Scottish Writers’. She writes the Substack general observations on eggs, and her next book is out in February 2027.
“Carrion Crow is a fascinating book. I believe it’s inspired by a real-life story of a woman in France who was imprisoned by her own family for twenty-five years in an attic. It’s about a girl called Marguerite who is going to be married, but before she is married off, her mother tells her she is to be prepared for wifehood and confines her to an attic for her well-being. In this attic is a book, Mrs. Beaton’s Book of Household Management, and a sewing machine. She finds a carrion crow that has been making a nest in the walls. We understand that she’s going mad, that she’s being starved and neglected, and she may or may not be imagining this carrion crow…” Read more...
Interviews with Heather Parry
The Best Body Horror Books, recommended by Heather Parry
Body horror is often bloody and gory, argues the novelist Heather Parry, but it is also a vessel for social commentary. Here she recommends five books that explore notions of bodily autonomy, capitalism and technology through the form of a horror novel – cult hits that will make you wince, but also make you think.
Interviews where books by Heather Parry were recommended
The Best Gothic Fantasy Novels, recommended by C.J. Cooke
Gothic fantasy helps us explore what is hidden, disturbing and liminal in our own lives, explains author C.J. Cooke. She introduces her top five gloriously Gothic novels, featuring haunted houses, attic prisons, carrion crows, and ghost children – and an underlying exploration of personal and collective traumas.
