Emily M. Danforth

‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS ‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy...totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End ‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER, top picks for 2021

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Hannah Jumer

It's a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after.

Beatrix

It’s true, of course, that all death is troubling to those of us left alive to bear witness, but certainly among the most troubling of all are the ugly, unexpected deaths of young people just starting to understand who and how they might be in the world.

[She] had a decent imagination for personal tragedy that blooms from a chaos of random events

“Don’t find yourself regretting this. You’re much too young to haunt your own life.”

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