AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025 A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 'Joyously
diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA 'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY
'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling
short stories that confront themes of desire fear and shame each one asking how far the
bounds of the human form can be pushed stretched - and subverted. A woman finds herself
navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during
her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to 'purify' her mind body and
soul. Through playful but provocative prose Rose Keating traverses a realm both dreamlike and
nightmarish exposing - to the bone - the absurdities and horrors of the feminine experience.
Oddbody prods a finger at societal norms gleefully turns familiar tropes on their head and
announces Keating as an audacious new voice in Irish fiction.
