Gloss
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Les Fugitives
Publishing:24th Feb '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 24th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Ari, Eleni and Hesper meet one summer at Golden Apples Farm in rural California, where the charismatic Lee, an apple farmer and cook, runs an alternative therapy programme for young women suffering from eating disorders. A year later, they reunite to testify at his trial.
Transposing the Greek myth of the Hesperides to Marin County at the turn of the millennium, Gloss is an unconventional psychological thriller with feminist bite. From the fragmented chorus of the girls’ voices emerges a surreal, kaleidoscopic picture of trauma and its aftermath: ambivalence, guilt, denial, lingering fascination, and the gaps left by things too difficult to speak aloud. Wilder paints desire and disgust alike in sensuous, delicate prose which captures the magnetic pull of forbidden fruit.
Praise for Gloss
- '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
- 'A subtle, powerful and compact novel. A strong contender for the 2025 Women's Prize.' - Paul Fulcher
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
ISBN: 9781739778354
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm x 14mm
Weight: unknown
180 pages