Published in 2015
148 pages
Claire-Louise Bennett writes experimental fiction and creative non-fiction. She has had work featured in many publications including The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, and The White Review. She is also a recipient of a Literature Bursary from Ireland’s Arts Council.
What is this book about?
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but restless with desire, the woman’s relationship with her surroundings becomes boundless and increasingly bewildering. Claire-Louise Bennett’s startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.
