*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020* SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE A Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year 'No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will. Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.' Daisy Johnson 'The queen of dark short fiction.' Guardian 'Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.' Daisy Johnson 'The best short story writer in Britain.' Spectator In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand at the very edge of our possible selves.