Salt Slow
United Kingdom

Salt Slow

by Julia Armfield

Identity & Belonging Literary Fiction 2022

Summary

In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.

Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants. Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, salt slow considers characters in motion – turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely.

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Julia Armfield
Julia Armfield

Julia Armfield is a British fiction writer and occasional playwright based in London. She holds a master’s degree in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her writing blends literary fiction, gothic horror, and speculative fiction, often exploring the body, identity, love, grief, and the unsettling boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. She is the author of the short story collection salt slow (2019) and the acclaimed novels Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), which won the Polari Prize in 2023, and Private Rites (2024). Her distinctive, atmospheric prose has established her as an original voice in contemporary British literature.

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2022
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Julia Armfield