'A lyrical exploration of landscape, folklore and self, this has haunted me since I read it. Brilliantly captures the feelings of not fitting in and the intensity of first love' Emily Barr

‘A book where language feels like hands reaching into the soil, where landscapes feel alive, where sentences, houses and memory are suffused with the uncanny. An astonishing book by a special writer' Tom De Freston, author of Wreck

‘Assured and beautifully written, an astonishing debut. It’s rare to find the Cornwall which most of us Cornish recognise in modern literature, but it’s here in all its vivid and magical glory. Rhythmic, atmospheric and endearing’ Charlie Carroll, author of The Lip

'A brilliantly modern take on the Celtic folkloric tradition and a beautifully written lament that creeps under the skin long after you have finished reading. Affecting and deeply absorbing' Jade Angeles Fitton, author of Hermit

‘As haunting, strange and brooding as the Cornish moors it so beautifully invokes. A masterful handling of forgotten folklore’ Jody Cooksley, author of The Small Museum

'Uncanny, visceral, claustrophobic and otherworldly: a work of strange and lyrical beauty' Ian Russell-Hsieh, author of I'm New Here

'Jodie Matthews takes Cornwall’s rich folklore and gothic literary traditions, then makes of them something strikingly fresh – a novel which feels both deeply ancient and utterly contemporary. Earthy, unsettling and chock-full of uncanny imagery, Meet Me at the Surface is a boldly compelling debut from an brilliant new voice in the literature of modern Cornwall' Tim Hannigan, author of The Granite Kingdom