β Scribed by Julia Armfield
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
'salt slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised.' China MiΓ©ville, author of The City & The City
This collection of short stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of its characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession and love. Throughout the collection, women become insects, men turn to stone, a city becomes insomniac and bodies are picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sea side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to the bodies of its inhabitants. Blending the mythic and the gothic, the collection considers characters in motion β turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new.
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