These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum and a cheery account of a child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. Each passes the time by telling the baby stories, trying to pass on the lessons they've learned: tales of circuses and stargazing, selkie fishermen and domestic werewolves, child-eating. You won't put it down' Sunday TelegraphĪ shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairy tales to disturbing supernatural fiction.Īlone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child.
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