It’s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.’***** ‘Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. ‘A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.’*****
‘Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written’***** ‘Every one of its 125 pages is perfect … Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.’ Harper’s ‘A miracle … A perfect novel.’ New Yorker Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation – and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams … Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs Calibanis a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research – but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. ‘A devastating fable of mythic proportions … Wondrously peculiar.’ Irenosen Okojie (foreword)ĭorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. ‘Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.’ Sarah Hall
‘Genius … Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka … Exquisite.’ The Times ”Genius … A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.’ Patricia Lockwood ‘A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.’ Carmen Maria Machado ‘Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.’ Marlon James ‘Disturbing but seductive … Wonderful.’ Margaret Atwood The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife’s affair with a frogman …
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