A review by jasonfurman
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

4.0

A genre defying novel that ends up almost like a humane, decent version of Lovecraft. On the surface a woman is taking her daughter to flee an abusive marriage, holed up in a Maine hotel while her husband and his hired goons pursue her. Part domestic, part thriller, it also has a psychological/supernatural aspect in her hearing voices and a strange interconnection between people, animals, and a range of voices. Sweet Lamb of Heaven is well written, oddly unpredictable, but still left me a little disappointed relative to the expectations from some of the reviews..