
‘Touched by Joanna Briscoe is a brilliantly eerie story of a seemingly perfect village and the people that move there’ Briscoe’s prose is sensuous, poetic, light. It works on every level… Touched is a finely balanced creation, reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. ‘Touched, Joanna Briscoe’s fifth novel, is a ghost story interwoven with crime, love and horror. ‘a claustrophobic net of whispers and guilt and danger… It’s all wonderfully creepy… Touched is thoroughly eerie, an enjoyably chilling sliver of ice on a hot summer's day…’

Touched makes me mindful of Dylan Thomas, it's so poetic and haunting Joanna Briscoe is a truly lovely writer’
