Bottled Goods

'A story to savour, to smile at, to rage against and to weep over' - Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk

'Sophie van Llewyn's stunning debut novella shows us there is no dystopian fiction as frightening as that which draws on history' -Christina Dalcher, author of VOX

'A masterful blend of the political and the personal, the magical and the mundane, the historical and the hyperbolic' -Ingrid Jendrzejewski, editor-in-chief of FlashBack Fiction

'This is an impressive debut in the tradition of Eastern European Absurdist fiction' -Jude Higgins, Bath Flash Fiction Award organiser

'Sophie van Llewyn has brought light into an era which cast a long shadow' -Joanna Campbell, author of When Planets Slip Their Tracks

'The uncertainties of life and love, and the insatiable quest for freedom - bottled neatly in a set of stories that captivate and enchant' -Michelle Elvy, coordinator of New Zealand's Flash Fiction Day and Bath Flash Fiction Award judge

'A tour de force, a harrowing and ultimately triumphant story, a must-read by a masterful writer' -Christopher Allen, author of Other Household Toxins

'A dizzying, daring window on life in Ceausescu's Romania' -Stephanie Hutton, author of Three Sisters of Stone

'A lucid and powerfully affecting story' -Helen Rye, winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award

'This stunning historical novella [...] is both tense and atmospheric' -Mslexia; 'The prose is tight, witty, vivid and atmospheric [...] Every word on the page pulls its weight' -Litro

'Van Llewyn's use of language is hypnotic and the worlds she creates stark and grotesque, calling to mind Shirley Jackson or Muriel Spark' -Smokelong magazine