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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.