How To Gut A Fish

On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous. Villagers, one by one, disappear into a sinkhole beneath a yew tree. A nameless girl is taped, bound and put on display in a countryside market. A man returning home following the death of his mother finds something disturbing among her personal effects. A dazzling and disquieting collection of stories, How To Gut A Fish places the bizarre beside the everyday and then elegantly and expertly blurs the lines. An exciting new Irish writer whose sharp and lyrical prose unsettles and astounds in equal measure, Sheila Armstrong's exquisitely provocative stories carve their way into your mind and take hold.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Author Biography: Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the northwest of Ireland. Her first collection of short stories, How To Gut A Fish, was published in 2022. Falling Animals, her debut novel, was released in 2023. Her writing has been listed for the Society of Authors Awards, the Galley Beggar Press Prize, the Kate O’Brien Award, the Irish Book Awards and the Edge Hill Prize. She is an Arts Council Next Generation Artist.
Language: English
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Page count: 224
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: Feb 20233