Description

A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCH

Can ‘no’ be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school.

* An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp’s nest in her shed.
* A pair of sapphic lovers use ghost possession to fleece money from lecherous men.
* One woman in wartime London discovers that she loves her husband much more as a ghost.
* A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a bloodthirsty succubus.

Intensely atmospheric, surprising and darkly funny, this collection is a richly flavoured feast from a brilliant writer in full command of the form.

‘Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy’ Lucy Rose, author of Lamb

‘A dark delight, steeped in blood red honey’ Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

‘A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection’ Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

‘No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan’ Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster

‘Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel’ Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll’s Alphabet

KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAIN’S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019

Publisher Review

Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy… a fearsome and tart collection of short stories that will devour you whole * Lucy Rose, author of Lamb * In her inimitable style, Kirsty Logan powerfully explores both the power of refusal and the wild, sharp, unruly edges of women’s desire… a dark delight, steeped in blood red honey * Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl * Exploring the dark underbelly of love in all its guises, Kirsty Logan’s words writhe on the page, a gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection. An unsettling collection from one of the sharpest, strangest short story writers working today * Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller * Mesmerising and evocative’ * Observer, on NOW SHE IS WITCH * One of our national writing treasures… deeply atmospheric… will hold you tight and not let go’ * Stylist, on NOW SHE IS WITCH *