Sarah Hall, already acclaimed as a prizewinning novelist whose work is amazing . . . terrifying and original (Washington Post), is now equally fêted as a radically gifted short-story writer.
A husband's wife transforms into a canid in Mrs. Fox, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. In Case Study 2 a social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in Luxury Hour. Set in the hinterland between the mundane and surreal, and marked by a fascination with the intimacy of natureand the nature of intimacythese nine astonishing stories will resonate long after the final page is turned.
