Description

Jo Mazelis’ dark stories feature murder, the ghostly and the border between the natural and supernatural. Ranging across early 20th-century France, 1960s South Wales and contemporary Europe, her singular vision and unswerving recreation of characters caught in events and feelings they do not understand and cannot control gives the book focus. Mazelis’ works by revealing one part of a subject, then switching to a different part so that the whole is never quite seen, leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions and put the pieces together, possibly in different ways. As ever her prose is poetic and lyrical and psychologically intense.