Salt Water: And Other Short Stories

Dark heartbreaking funny twisted bleak and hopeful in unequal measure: 11 imaginative short stories that take you to the curious extremities of human relationships. Ranging from the mysterious to macabre Salt Water is a delicious short story collection of astonishing variety. Described as a page-turning assault on the senses and the literary fiction equivalent of a deep-tissue massage the stories unravel twist and surprise taking the reader to unexpected depths. In this debut collection Hughes merges beautifully crafted lyrical prose hard-boiled dialogue and gothic imagery to disorientate disturb and ultimately delight readers. Fuelled by revenge loss death and love this unusual collection of intriguing stories is sometimes haunting at other times bizarre and always riveting.