A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
-I love this book.- BRANDON TAYLOR
-Extraordinary and original.- Sunday Times
-Brilliant, funny, unsettling.- SALLY ROONEY
-Impressive.-Irish Times
-A writer beyond compare.- ALI SMITH
-Fierce and tender.- LUCY CALDWELL
-Astounding.- COLIN BARRETT
-Worthy of multiple readings.- JON McGREGOR
The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.
From Wales to Croatia to the depths of the ocean, these five achingly tender stories of (dis)connection are bursting with emotional vulnerability. A child attends his first football match, buoyed by secret magic; a young seahorse grapples with grief and loss; a troubled young man gets his birthday teeth. Strikingly origina