A Portable Shelter
  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784702342
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

A Portable Shelter

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3 Jan 2017
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A collection of magical stories from the author of The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart

In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child.

Each passes the time by telling the baby stories, trying to pass on the lessons they’ve learned: tales of circuses and stargazing, selkie fishermen and domestic werewolves, child-eating witches and broken-toothed dragons.

But they must keep their storytelling a secret from one another, as they’ve agreed to only ever tell the plain truth. So to cloak their tales, Ruth tells her stories when Liska is at work, to a background of shrieking seabirds; Liska tells hers when Ruth is asleep, with the lighthouse sweeping its steady beam through the window.
  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784702342
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family.

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