SALT SLOW

Julia Armfield/ Picador A haunting and deliciously unsettling debut by the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2018. Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city’s population become insomniacs overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up a better one. Blurring the mythic with the mundane, these seductive short stories explore isolation, obsession, love and revenge. This is gothic, melancholic and mesmerising. Out now