Fen
Book description
Winner of the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
Daisy Johnson's Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familiar instincts, with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where…
Why read it?
1 author picked Fen as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Fen is another book I picked up early in my writing career, and has made me a lifelong Daisy Johnson fan.
This is a collection of linked stories set in one small English town, where a harem of vampires lure their prey with dating apps, a narrator tries to save her sister from her anorexia transforming her into an eel, and a fox’s consciousness bleeds together with that of its hunters.
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