Tom Lee

Fizzing with an energy at once dark and playful, swift in its impact, enduring in its effect. Lee can conjure a mood in the twist of a sentence. He shifts from voice to voice with ease and is very quotable. Deftly, wryly, Lee leaves us squirming in our seats

Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past and present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns and high cities of modern South America. 
 
A young couple's passionate affair unravels as they wait anxiously in their hotel room for news of a recklessly conceived drug deal. 
 
An academic inherits a set of diaries detailing her great-grandfather's development of a bizarre new field of science; an endeavour which has shocking implications for his young daughter and unfaithful wife. 
 
And in Greenfly, a housebound woman is driven to distraction by the insects infesting her house - putting strain on an already fractured relationship with her partner. 
 
Lee's stories announce the arrival of a writer whose vision is razor sharp, blackly funny and startlingly original.

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Fizzing with an energy at once dark and playful, swift in its impact, enduring in its effect. Lee can conjure a mood in the twist of a sentence. He shifts from voice to voice with ease and is very quotable. Deftly, ...

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