Monstrum : From the winner of the BBC Young Writers' Award 2020

��WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE DIFFERENT IN A WORLD THAT VALUES PERFECTION, AT ANY COST?'Lottie's writing is a superb flight of the imagination' A.S. Byatt, author of�Possession'Haunting, luridly beautiful, and at times shockingly, deliciously gruesome'�Jenn Ashworth, author of�GhostedA 'Best Book for May 2024' according to CosmopolitanFrom Lottie Mills, the winner of the BBC Young Writers' Award in 2020, comes this beautifully crafted collection of stories. A father and daughter build a life for themselves on an isolated beach. But the outside world is pressing in. It's only a matter of time before their secret refuge is discovered. A young disabled woman opts to receive a perfect, pain-free body. Soon, however, she finds herself haunted by the one she cast off.�A travelling circus master discovers the ideal addition to his cabinet of curiosities: 'damaged', 'grotesque', gifted. He plans to make her the star of his show; she plans to take her revenge. Monstrum captures the experience of characters excluded by a society that cannot accept their difference. Eerie, fantastical and hugely ambitious, this collection announces the arrival of an outstanding new literary voice.�'Lottie's stories reminded me of what matters' Claire Oshetsky'Magical and haunting' Jan Carson�