THE ELECTRIFYING DEBUT FROM THE WINNER OF THE WHITE REVIEW SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018 'Thrilling
. . . A writer whose next move you wouldn't want to miss.' Observer 'Wickedly clever prose
and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' M JOHN HARRISON
Guardian In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories Julia
Armfield explores bodies and the bodily mapping the skin and bones of her characters through
their experiences of isolation obsession love and revenge. Teenagers develop ungodly
appetites a city becomes insomniac overnight and bodies are diligently picked apart to make
up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and
transformed creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants.
Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday S alt Slow considers characters in motion
- turning away turning back or simply turning into something new entirely. Winner of The
White Review Short Story Prize 2018 Armfield is a writer of sharp lyrical prose and tilting
dark humour - S alt Slow marks the arrival of an ambitious and singular new voice. ' Salt
Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic melancholy powerful and poised.' China Miéville
author of The City & The City 'Armfield is an enormous gut-wrenching talent.' Daisy Johnson
author of Everything Under 'Truly dazzling . . . so subtle intelligent and imaginative.'
Stuart Kelly The Scotsman
