Dreams of Dead Women’s Handbags

In stories as intriguing as their titles – ‘Pink Cigarettes’, ‘Electric Blue Damsels’, ‘Other People’s Bathrobes’ – Shena Mackay demonstrates her uncanny ability to expose the menace of everyday life with humour and haunting accuracy. Harnessing Mackay’s darkly comic vision, an astonishing originality and vibrant prose, these remarkable short works provide ‘novel-worthy dimensions in a few pages’ (New York Times Book Review).