Salt Slow: From the author of Our Wives Under the Sea

by Julia Armfield

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 4 shelved
Book cover for Salt Slow

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

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...

Read more
  • ISBN10 1529012589
  • ISBN13 9781529012583
  • Publish Date 30 May 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 160
  • Language English