Silk Pavilion

Sarah Walton is "a supremely superior realist novelist" (Morning Star UK). She started her career as a digital pioneer in California, and remains a leading figure in digital innovation and corporate storytelling. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and lectures on Hull University’s Online MA Creative Writing. Sarah also teaches her Soul Writing method, that combines meditation, free-writing and creative writing skills. This is her third novel.

"The Silk Pavilion by Sarah Walton is a literary thriller… about toxic relationships, about misogyny, and draws on the Spanish Civil War as a theme. This is a powerful, intense, incredibly frank and uncomfortably erotic portrait of a woman striving to find herself, an intelligent and strong woman who yet has weaknesses that make her vulnerable. The prose is beautiful even when the subject is dangerous." – Crime Time Radio (UK)"Sarah Walton's latest novel is a surgically emotional study of the perils of deliberate and damaging forgetting for both an individual and a whole country. At its heart it examines the utter tyranny of abuse, the longevity of its implications and the struggles required to confront the pain. As such The Silk Pavilion is a Jungian exegesis that outgrows the thriller genre within which it at first seems to inhabit. Sarah is a supremely superior realist novelist." – Morning Star (UK)"Sarah Walton's The Silk Pavilion weaves a compelling story around a young British woman and her controlling, narcissistic lover. Using fact, fiction and the historical remnants of the Spanish Civil War, she succeeds in bringing us, with honesty and empathy, this vividly told story. Reads like a thriller but also very much a novel of one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival. Contemporary, relevant and highly readable." – Grace Nichols, Poet Some Blogger Reaction:"Mesmerizing storytelling… an absolute masterpiece and one I'll savour over and over again." – @murderjowrote"I couldn't put this book down. Sarah Walton deserves tremendous credit." – @labibliobecca"This story was an eye-opening, relevant one. I will not be forgetting this book in a long time." – @penfoldlayla"A strange yet intoxicating and addictive read." – @bookmarkonthewall"The Silk Pavilion is beautifully written and one of those stories that doesn't leave you easily. I still think about it – and about Lucy's courage. A spectacular read." – @jerasjamboreee"Miguel is one of the most hateful characters I've ever come across." – @bookwormblogss"The beautifully written sense of place has you understanding how this is part of the spell, the spell that keeps Lucy in danger's reach." – @numberslady_reads"Disturbing, chilling and extremely gripping. This is one I highly recommend for the tbr." – @secretworldofabook