<p><b>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.<br><br>'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' – M John Harrison, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, S<i>alt Slow </i>considers characters in motion – turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely.<br><br>Winner of <i
