'Immensely accomplished . . . unnerving stories full of gothic menace and beautiful writing'
Sunday Times 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 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 salt slow considers characters in motion - turning
away turning back or simply turning into something new entirely. 'Introduces a significant new
voice in contemporary writing' Herald 'Visceral perturbing and exhilarating' Stylist
