Madame Zero - Softcover

From one of the most daring and original writers working today comes a unique and dazzling collection of short fiction

Sarah Hall has been hailed as a writer whose “intelligence and ambition are thrilling to behold” (BookForum). Her work has been praised as “amazing . . . terrific and original” (Washington Post). Already acclaimed as a prizewinning nov-elist, she is now equally fêted as a radically gifted short-story writer.

A husband’s wife transforms into a canid in “Mrs. Fox,” winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. In “Case Study 2” a social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in “Luxury Hour.” Set in the hinterland between the mundane and surreal, and marked by a fascination with the intimacy of nature—and the nature of intimacy—these nine astonishing stories will resonate long after the final page is turned.

Sarah Hall received a Masters of Letters in creative writing from Scotland's St. Andrews University, and is the author of four novels, The Wolf Border; Haweswater, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize; The Electric Michelangelo; and Daughters Of The North, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her story collection The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize and was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. She lives in Norwich, England.