* From the winner of the BBC Young Writers' Award 2020 * What does it mean to be different
in a world that values perfection at any cost? 'Lottie's writing is a superb flight of the
imagination' A.S. Byatt author of Possession 'Haunting luridly beautiful and at times
shockingly deliciously gruesome' Jenn Ashworth author of Ghosted A 'Best Book for May
2024' according to Cosmopolitan From Lottie Mills the winner of the BBC Young Writers'
Award in 2020 comes this beautifully crafted collection of stories. A father and daughter
build a life for themselves on an isolated beach. But the outside world is pressing in. It's
only a matter of time before their secret refuge is discovered. A young disabled woman opts
to receive a perfect pain-free body. Soon however she finds herself haunted by the one she
cast off. A travelling circus master discovers the ideal addition to his cabinet of
curiosities: 'damaged' 'grotesque' gifted. He plans to make her the star of his show she
plans to take her revenge. Monstrum captures the experience of characters excluded by a
society that cannot accept their difference. Eerie fantastical and hugely ambitious this
collection announces the arrival of an outstanding new literary voice. 'Lottie's stories
reminded me of what matters' Claire Oshetsky 'Magical and haunting' Jan Carson
