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Sisters by Daisy Johnson review – a confection of horror tropes rendered in poetic prose

On a summer’s day, two girls and their mother move into a house on the North Yorkshire coast. The sisters’ whimsical names – July and September – belie the darkness of the gothic tale that weaves itself around them. The house, too, is ironically named; the Settle House, full of mysterious sounds and shifting air, is anything but settled.

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Julia Armfield: ‘salt slow is about women and bodies and the ways in which our bodies contain us and betray us’

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Julia Armfield’s short story collection salt slow opens with “Mantis”, a story about a teenage girl whose body is changing. But unlike her peers’, her body is changing in a more unexpected, more monstrous way.