In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories Julia Armfield explores
the body mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation
obsession love and revenge. 'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom
up like a character in itself' - M John Harrison Guardian 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 Armfield is a writer of sharp lyrical prose and tilting dark
humour. ' Salt Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic melancholy powerful and poised.' -
China Miéville author of The City & The City 'The stories in this collection look at
women's bodies and their experiences in society with an eerie otherworldly lense . . . For
fans of Carmen Maria Machado Sophie Mackintosh and Megan Hunter' - Elle
