A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into from the prizewinning
author of NOW SHE IS WITCH Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is
savage dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection women navigate
the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place from a medieval convent to a
Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school. * An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp's
nest in her shed. * A pair of sapphic lovers use ghost possession to fleece money from
lecherous men. * One woman in wartime London discovers that she loves her husband much more as
a ghost. * A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a bloodthirsty succubus. Intensely
atmospheric surprising and darkly funny this collection is a richly flavoured feast from a
brilliant writer in full command of the form. 'Absolutely obsessed. Savage strange and
spicy' Lucy Rose author of Lamb 'Unsettling and addictive glistening with transgressive
thrills and erotic appetites' Daily Mail 'Gleefully depraved gloriously queer and
thrillingly bold' Leon Craig author of Parallel Hells 'A dark delight steeped in blood red
honey' Heather Parry author of Orpheus Builds A Girl 'A gothic homage to the visceral
haunting unnerving nature of human connection' Alice Slater author of Death of a Bookseller
'Full of strange beauty and shining humour' Stylist 'No one writes about the horrific and
the erotic and the tangled up intersections of both like Kirsty Logan' Anna Bogutskaya
author of Feeding The Monster 'Darkly graceful innovative sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is
a jewel' Camilla Grudova author of The Doll's Alphabet 'Crackling with smarts marvellously
formally varied deliciously strange' Laird Hunt author of Zorrie KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED
AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International
Literature Showcase in 2019
