Synopsis
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...
Details
19 March 2020208 pages
9781529012590Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Salt Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised.China Miéville, author of The City & The City
Unafraid to venture beyond realism’s limits, Julia Armfield refashions our contemporary existence as an eerie, care-worn dreamworld, taking our quotidian anxieties and desires and handing them back to us empathetically remade . . . Armfield is a significant, exciting talent.Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion and judge of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018
This debut collection is both wild and wonderful, packed with mythical transformations that take place in the most ordinary of contemporary settings . . . vivid . . . visceral . . . marvellous.Daily Mail
Reading this collection is the only thing you need to do right now. Reading this collection is the only thing you ever need to do. Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Everything Under
