The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt.
This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a, well, what?
'Instant classic...a bold, take-no-prisoners collection situated somewhere between Angela Carter and Deborah Levy' Jeff VanderMeer***
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(@vintagebooks, 8 June 2017, paperback, 43 pages, bought from @bookshop_org_UK)
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I enjoyed all of the stories in this collection. The stories are similar in tone to Madame Zero by Sarah Hall which I did not expect as I chose both at random. The stories are dark, twisted, strange and surreal. I didn't want to stop reading them. The best stories were Starver, The Scattering and Birthing Stones.
