Things to Make and Break

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

''Quite dazzling.'' TLS

''Plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic'' Guardian

Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voi...