Published in 2014
143 pages
Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. She is the author of two novels, The Gloaming and The Gracekeepers, and two story collections, A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. Her fifth book, Things We Say in the Dark, came out in 2019. Kirsty lives in Glasgow with her wife and their rescue dog. She has tattooed toes.
What is this book about?
Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world.
• On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends – but can they resist their unique connection?
• In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy.
• A teenager deals with his sister’s death by escaping from their tiny Scottish island – but will she let him leave?
• In 1920s New Orleans, a young girl comes of age in her mother’s brothel.
Some of these stories are radical retellings of classic tales, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love.
