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Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under. ‘Full of unabashedly refreshingly angry women… In a year that made me furious Daisy Johnson’s Fen was a howl I didn’t know I needed’ Celeste Ng The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse where curious metamorphoses take place where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a well what? ‘Instant classic…a bold take-no-prisoners collection situated somewhere between Angela Carter and Deborah Levy’ Jeff VanderMeer
