Fen Synopsis
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
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781784702106 |
| Publication date: |
8th June 2017 |
| Author: |
Daisy Johnson |
| Publisher: |
Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
191 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Daisy Johnson Press Reviews
'There is big, dangerous vitality herein - this book marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent.' -- Kevin Barry
'Within these magical, ingenious stories lies all of the angst, horror and beauty of adolescence. A brilliant achievement.' -- Evie Wyld
'Reading the stories brought the sense of being trapped in a room slowly, but very surely, filling up with water. You think: this can't be happening. Meanwhile, hold your breath against the certainty it surely is.' -- Cynan Jones, author of The Dig
'I've been working my way slowly through Fen and not wanting it to end - Daisy marries realism to the uncanny so well that the strangest turnings ring as truth. The echoes between stories give the collection a wonderfully satisfying cohesion, so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I cannot wait to see what she does next.' -- Sara Taylor, author of The Shore
About Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990 and currently lives in Oxford. Her short fiction has appeared in The Boston Review and The Warwick Review, among others. In 2014, she was the recipient of the 2014 AM Heath prize.
Photo credit: Pollyanna Johnson
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