On the Edges of Vision - Helen McClory
‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ -Margaret Atwood
‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ -Margaret Atwood
‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ -Margaret Atwood
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Unease sounds itself in the language of legend. Images call on memory, on the monstrous self. In Helen McClory’s award-winning, daring debut collection, the skin prickles against sweeps of light or darkness, the fantastic or the frightful; deep water, dark woods, or scattered flesh in desert sand.
Whether telling of a boy cyclops or a pretty dead girl, drowned sailors or the devil himself, each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told, a truth half-true: that the monster is human, and only wants to reach out and take you by the hand.
‘Angela Carter for the millennial generation' - Meena Kandasamy