In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Homophobia (Cassandra After)
- Body-shaming (Mantis)
- Infidelity (Cassandra After)
- Divorce (Formally Feral, Smack)
- Depression (Smack, Cassandra After)
- Suicide mentioned (The Collectables)
- Self-harm mentioned (Cassandra After)
- Alcohol consumption & smoking (The Collectables)
- Pregnancy & mention of miscarriage/pregnancy loss (Salt Slow)
- Blood & injury depiction (Mantis, Formally Feral, Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax, Granite, Salt Slow)
- Heart attack mentioned (The Collectables)
- Weight loss, dieting & starvation mentioned (Mantis, Salt Slow)
- Emesis (Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax)
- Death of a parent recounted (Smack)
- Death of a partner (Cassandra After)
- Car accident mentioned (Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax)
- Fire (The Collectables)
- Drowning (Salt Slow)
- Bullying (Formally Feral)
