'Irene Solà is unlike any other writer - she storms her own path, setting fire to all our preconceived notions of what a novel can do while she goes. I adored this book'

- Daisy Johnson,

'Irene Solà's masterful new novel is an incendiary exploration of bodies and memory... This is writing which revels in fecundity in all its forms. To say it depicts nature red in tooth and claw is understatement writ large... A highly literary novel... Solà's book celebrates the tradition of storytelling in a manner which is both ancient and artful. Mara Faye Lethem's translation never takes you out of what's happening on the page... Solà's imagery is beyond arresting - it burns itself into your retina as you read'

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'Solà first distinguished herself with the equally enchanting When I Sing Mountains Dance, and her fascination with folklore returns to create another novel as beautiful as it is wicked and often filthy'

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