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Winding Up the Week #391

An end of week recap “Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston There will be no wind up next Saturday because I’m getting married. Thank you so much everybody for your kind good wishes. I will see you on the other side (of the broom, that is). As ever, this is a post in…

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Lanny by Max Porter

Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

Boy Parts by Eliza Clarke

The Island Child by Molly Aitken

And some honourable mentions for books that came after writing but I’m damn certain would have influenced if they were written earlier:

Brutes by Dizz Tate

Spoilt Creatues by Amy Twigg

Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger

Creep/This Immaculate Body by Emma Van Straaten

Anyway, if you got to the end of this list, check out my sapphic cannibal novel THE LAMB, which is about mother and daughter cannibals, surviving girlhood and navigating queerness.