![]() ![]() Tapping into the darkness of the contemporary world, she brings to mind other young British writers like Sophie Mackintosh but her fantasies have a precision and surreality of their own. Her writing is impeccably honed, full of juxtapositions and qualifications that help to create a creeping sense of unease. Armfield.pays as much attention to her sentences as she does to her plots, shifting or consolidating meaning with the use of a single word. Bodies are sites of transformation they can metamorphose, turn to stone or rise from the dead with tendons exposed and skin coming away from the bone. Grounded in the everyday, the stories borrow from myth and Gothic literature, their familiarity upended by elements of the uncanny and macabre. Armfield’s fictions are set on.thinner surfaces, unstable places where boundaries – between humans and animals, wakefulness and sleep, land and sea – are prone to weaken or disappear. ![]()
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