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Rating: 4.3 (780 reviews)
Author: Julia Armfield

by Julia Armfield

Literary Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy

4.3 (780)

4.3 stars from 780 reviews. Top 92% of Literary Fiction books we track.

208 pages~3.5 hr readPublished by Flatiron BooksPublished 2019-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love short story collections that refuse easy categorisation and mess with genre conventions, like Machado's Her Body and Other Parties.
You're drawn to feminist speculative fiction where the body itself is the story, not just the setting.
You appreciate prose that's precise and unsettling, where mundane realities slip into the genuinely eerie without warning.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer plot-driven narratives with clear resolutions and character arcs you can follow across a full novel.
You're looking for comfort reads or stories that affirm rather than unsettle your understanding of what's normal.
You want your speculative fiction to explain its world-building rules upfront rather than leave you in deliberate ambiguity.

About this book

Julia Armfield's debut story collection explores women's experiences in contemporary society through their bodies. The collection includes stories in which urban residents' sleep becomes separated from them like a shadow, leaving a city insomniac; a teenager experiences puberty differently than her peers; fangirls following a rising band's tour transform into something monstrous; two step-sisters—one human, one wolf—form a dangerously close bond after their parents remarry; and a pregnant woman in an apocalyptic setting discovers the creature she carries is not what she believed. The stories blend horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism. Armfield is a White Review Short Story Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

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Currently 4.3★ from 780 reviews

Gaining approximately 11 new reviews per month. Rating has dipped slightly from 4.4 to 4.2.

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