The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

by Kirsty Logan

Overview

<strong>Winner of the Scott Prize</strong>

<strong>Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize</strong>

<strong>Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection</strong>

<strong>The Herald: Book of the Year 2014</strong>

<strong>Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize</strong>

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844719990
Publisher:	Salt
Publication date:	03/15/2014
Series:	Salt Modern Fiction
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	807 KB

About the Author

Kirsty Logan is an award-winning writer based in Scotland. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies all over the world, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, displayed in galleries, and translated into French, Japanese and Spanish. Kirsty has received fellowships from Hawthornden Castle and Brownsbank Cottage, and was the first writer-in-residence at West Dean College. She has previously worked as a bookseller, and is now a literary editor and freelance writer.