THE WRONG HEAVEN

(W&N £8.99)

THIS debut collection by Amy Bonnaffons is smart and strange, aslant with odd moments of metamorphosis and mysterious happenings. These goings- on appear entirely normal in the tip-tilted world her characters inhabit.

In The Wrong Heaven, a woman is subjected to the judgmental opinions of light-up Jesus and Mary statues, who offer annoying advice on her life choices.

In A Room To Live In, a dolls’ house maker worries about how her husband will cope when the tiny figures she has carved come to life.

In the most startling offering, two friends inject each other with hormones every morning, both hoping for something transformative to happen: ‘We have different goals. Serena wants to be become a mother. I want to become a horse.’ Brilliantly unexpected.