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THIS IS MY BODY, GIVEN FOR YOU - Launch at The Portobello Bookshop

“Join us for the launch of Heather Parry's debut short story collection, This Is My Body, Given For You. We have loved teaming up with Haunt Publishing in the past to launch their previous publications and this time is no different! Join us to celebrate this consuming collection of stories by the brilliant Heather Parry, exploring the ways the body can be changed, altered and escaped from.

This will be an informal launch. Heather will give a short reading and there will be refreshments on offer on the night.

In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of This Is My Body, Given For You – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book.

Please note that there will not be a livestream of this event.

About This Is My Body, Given For You:

A girl suffering a bizarre menstrual aberration is exploited by those around her, including her father. A boy expresses his love for a nonhuman man by making himself animalistic. A girl abandoned by her community discovers the possibility of transmutation through cannibalism. A man struggles with his wife’s choices around her existence, and considers whether he should leave her alone in her semi- oblivion, or join her.

In This Is My Body, Given For You, Heather Parry places in our hands fifteen stories in which the body is something that can be changed, altered, and escaped from. With dripping blood, bruised tentacles, and seamed skin, Heather Parry’s debut short story collection will consume you.”

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