Published in 2021
213 pages
Lucie McKnight Hardy’s stories have featured in various publications, including Best British Short Stories 2019, Black Static, The Lonely Crowd, The New Abject and as a limited edition chapbook from Nightjar Press. Her debut novel, Water Shall Refuse Them, was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition 2017 and longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award 2018.
Lucie grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker. She has also lived in Liverpool, Cardiff, Zurich and Bradford, and has now settled in the far eastern reaches of Herefordshire, at the foot of the Malvern Hills, where she lives with her husband, three children and other assorted creatures.
She has worked in the advertising, public relations and marketing industries, and has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.
What is this book about?
Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease her dead relatives. Other stories in this collection explore themes of motherhood and the fragile body, family dynamics and small town tensions, unusual traditions and metamorphosis. Dead Relatives is the highly anticipated, no-holds-barred short story collection from Lucie McKnight Hardy, and readers can expect more of the suspense and trepidation evident in her debut novel, Water Shall Refuse Them. Not for the faint-hearted, Dead Relatives invites you behind closed doors, and will leave you wondering if it’s better that they’re kept shut and firmly locked.
The highly anticipated new collection from the author of Water Shall Refuse Them. ‘Lucie McKnight Hardy brings a slick perfectionism to the genre of folk horror…a fine writer, sensitive to detail and with a knack for gruesome imagery’- Black Static
