Madame Zero

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018 n LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018 n WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION n WINNER OF AN O.HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION n n 'A genius.' Jessie Burton n n Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological - all of which are hauntingly resonant with dread. Whether set in an apocalyptic storm, a local swimming pool, or a surgical theatre, Sarah Hall's celebrated stories inhabit a hinterland between the natural and urban, the mundane and surreal, human and animal. n