Fragile Animals lands in April 2024!
Announcing our April 2024 title, Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger!
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past.
Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her Catholic upbringing, hotel cleaner, Noelle, travels to the Isle of Bute. There, she meets a man who claims to be a vampire, and a relationship blooms between them based solely on confession. But as talk turns sacrilegious, and the weather outside grows colder, Noelle struggles to come to terms with her blasphemous sexuality. She becomes hounded by memories of her past: her mother’s affair with the local priest, and the part she played in ending it.
Bridging the gaps between contemporary gothic fiction, queer fiction and magical realism, FRAGILE ANIMALS lures readers into Noelle’s loose grasp on her world and immerses them in some of Scotland’s most harsh and claustrophobic environments.
“For me, the opportunity to publish Fragile Animals with 404 Ink will always feel like fate,” says Genevieve. “Having fallen in love with Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash back in 2019 it became my dream to work with 404 and find myself amongst voices of such calibre. 404 is not a predictable press, the work they have done to boost queer, minority, and transgressive voices in the lit scene is virtually unparalleled. The care they have taken to support me through this overwhelming journey toward publishing was entirely unexpected but warms my heart nonetheless. I firmly believe that Fragile Animals was destined to debut with 404. Everything about the press is kismet.”
Credit: David Ronan
Genevieve Jagger is a queer writer and witch from Scotland. Deeply involved in the literary community, Genevieve is a co-editor for Witch Craft Magazine. Genevieve’s writing can be found across the web at such locations as, X-RAY Magazine, Expat Press, and Body Fluids Lit Mag. Additional to writing, Genevieve works as a tarot reader, dealing fortunes across Glasgow.
Genevieve was raised Catholic, which has very much influenced the themes of her debut novel, Fragile Animals. She is a Scorpio, a sinner, and quite distinctly autistic. You can most often find her feeding magpies and crying over the smallness of all things.
