![]() ![]() ![]() So, for instance, with ‘Mantis’, you have a teenage girl in among a clutch of other teenage girls, all of whom are going through various changes – except our narrator seems to be enduring a more pronounced change. What you have here are nine short stories, usually from the point of view of a young woman, refracted through some off-kilter prisms. Ah, you might be thinking, whenever Bookmunch start reviews in this way it’s usually because we don’t like the book in question and reckon it’s been praised unduly – but what do you know? On this occasion we liked salt slow about as much as everyone else appears to have. Julia Armfield’s debut short story collection seems to have garnered much in the way of positive praise since it was published, and the hardback comes lavishly adorned with praise from the likes of Daisy Johnson (who Armfield’s writing favours – you could see potential publishers circling like sharks to snap up the next Daisy Johnson), Sam Byers and Sinead Gleason. ![]()
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