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An astonishing portrait of immortals fighting in an unending war against an Insect foe. She has an eye for details of lives that is reminiscent of Mervyn Peake. In fifty years' time people will be reading this book and talking about it the way we talk about Gormenghast.

George Walkley, Ink Magazine

Turtle Poems

I

If there’s one thing our tortoise
Taught us before he died,
It’s never hurtle turtleshell
When the turtle’s still inside.

II

The reptiles are roof tiles
And bask afloat all day.
The submarines are soup tureens
And slowly swim away.