Gloss

Praise for Gloss

• ‘An inventive, and absorbing, portrait of girlhood interrupted.’ – Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
• 'A sinister nexus of gluttony, anorexia and forbidden desire.(...) Gloss, the beguiling second novel by American writer Kyra Wilder, is a loose riff on the Greek myth of the Hesperides.' — Claire Allfree, Daily Telegraph, four-star review
• 'Taut and vivid. It is like stepping into a delicately described hallucinatory nightmare and I was completely mesmerised all the way through. The themes of coercive control and psychological disintegration are so chilling and important.' – Suzanne Joinson, author of The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things
• ‘This slender, superbly creepy novel combines elements of a psychological thriller with mythology-infused magic realism. (…) It weaves in subtle insights into the gender imbalance among anorexia sufferers, enduring failures in its treatment and the profoundly insidious nature of coercive control.’ – Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail ‘Best Literary Fiction out for Spring’
• ‘A crisp forensic tale of resilience... chilling and memorable.’– Paul Burke
• ‘Eerie and sensuous, written in prose as crisp as a Golden Delicious, Gloss reveals, as in a myth, a world of simmering violence and coercion hiding beneath the surface of the everyday, and the dark places to which it leads.’ – Philip Terry, author of Dante’s Purgatorio

Praise for Little Bandaged Days

• 'Gripping, composed, observant, wonderfully written and extravagantly cruel.[...] The story comes closer to reality when it dramatises something wider: the performance of an enviable lifestyle, and the various miseries that make this performance possible.' - Daisy Hildyard, Guardian
• 'Beautifully written and frighteningly honest, this feverish debut delivers a brave appraisal of a woman's spiral into madness.' - Sunday Express
• 'Wilder artfully cranks up the tension, so you don't quite know when you begin to hold your breath. A chilling read' - Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer