Perfect, Stories of the Impossible

Sally Emerson's stories of the impossible explore the eerie and supernatural in everyday life. A clerk receives death certificates dated in the future, a woman clones her husband, and a mother is prescribed a health supplement with amorous side-effects. Emerson's tales are beguiling and uncanny, celebrating reality and unreality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 297 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2022
Publisher: Mereo Books

In her captivating tales of the impossible, master of the domestic thriller Sally Emerson weaves the eerie and supernatural into her keen-eyed portraits of everyday life. A clerk working in a public register office stumbles upon death certificates dated in the future, setting her on a mission to alter fate and save the victims. A woman unable to have children uncovers a way to clone her husband, raising the question of whether their cloned son will repeat the mistakes of his father. A suburban mother finds herself prescribed a health supplement with rather amorous side-effects, testing her resistance and temptation as she navigates the sway of this mysterious substance. Emerson's stories of quotidian life invaded by forces beyond our control are both beguiling and uncanny, as she celebrates reality and unreality in its myriad forms. Magical, humorous, written with a headlong pace and brio, Perfect will linger with the reader long after they've finished the suspense of its pages. Sally Emerson's bestselling novels include the dark love stories Fire Child and Heat, as well as Separation.

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 220 x 127 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781739864507