A Beautiful Lack of Consequence 9781529918724 Paperback

‘Tender, humorous and movingCOSMOPOLITAN’Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.’SALMA EL-WARDANY, author of THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS’Radojevics stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry.’CATHERINE MAYER, author TIME/LIFE***Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to womens fear but it comes at a high price.Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life: from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak.A Beautiful Lack of Consequenceexplores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them and what happens when those women snap back.Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly,A Beautiful Lack of Consequenceis a blazing debut collection from the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers Prize.***’Thoughtful, introspective and darkly funny’READER REVIEW’So beautiful and raw’READER REVIEW’Biting . . . a must read!’READER REVIEW