PRE-ORDER: This book will be shipped in early January 2025. Publication: Jan 19th 2025.
“Who’s afraid of a girl who shines bright?”
In this spellbinding collection of uncanny short stories, Rosie Garland invites readers into a world where the familiar is transformed, and the boundaries between the natural and supernatural blur. “Your Sons and Your Daughters are Beyond” explores the extraordinary lives of people who defy expectations, transcending the limits imposed by society and the laws of nature itself.
Garland’s stories are equal parts enchanting and disquieting, weaving together elements of magical realism and the haunting undercurrents of our deepest fears and desires. With a deft hand, she unveils the extraordinary within the ordinary, inviting readers to embrace the transformative potential within us all.
Brace yourself for a journey into the unknown, where the impossible becomes reality, and the boundaries of imagination are pushed to their limits.
Praise for Rosie Garland:
‘Chunks of exposition lie dying on the floor of Rosie Garland’s writing room. Get into this collection of short, sharp shockers before it gets into you.’
- Nicholas Royle
‘A heady mix of the surreal and all too real, this collection is by turns beguiling and horrifying. Each little beast of a tale creates its own often fantastical world, yet beats with an eerie reality. I dare you to read it.’
- Molly Aitken, Author of Bright I Burn
'The stories in Your Sons and Your Daughters Are Beyond are mini-lightning flashes, resonating well beyond the brief spaces they inhabit. There is a power in these pieces which dazzle and cut all at once, like shards of stained glass. Each story in this stunning collection challenges the myth of normality and at the same time, reminds us that there is both beauty and horror in ordinary moments. A collection to return to again and again.'
-Meg Pokrass, Author of The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories
‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale …enjoyably energetic’ - SUNDAY TIMES
'A mesmerising blend of mythology and modernity speaking \"the mother tongue.\" A tale, capturing the heart in a world where we are lost.' - Defne Suman, author of THE SILENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE
About the Author
Rosie Garland writes short and long fiction, poetry and hybrid works that fall between and outside definition. She’s lead singer in post-punk band The March Violets. Poetry collection ‘What Girls Do In The Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021 and her novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.” Val McDermid has named her one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK today. Her latest novel, ‘The Fates’ (Quercus) is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Fates. In 2023 she was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
