The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
By Kirsty Logan
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Winner of the Scott Prize
Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize
Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection
The Herald: Book of the Year 2014
Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize
Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world. On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends – but can they resist their unique connection? In an alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy. A teenager deals with his sister's death by escaping from their tiny Scottish island – but will she let him leave? In 1920s New Orleans, a young girl comes of age in her mother's brothel. Some of these stories are radical retellings of classic tales, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love.
Kirsty Logan
KIRSTY LOGAN is an award-winning writer based in Scotland. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies all over the world, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, displayed in galleries, and translated into French, Japanese and Spanish. She has received fellowships from Hawthornden Castle and Brownsbank Cottage, and was the first writer-in-residence at West Dean College. Logan lives in Glasgow, where she is active in feminist and LGBT culture. She has previously worked as a bookseller, and is now a freelance writer and literary editor. Her debut story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize. In 2013, she was named one of the 40 Scottish Storytellers of the Future.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This relatively short book is packed full of stories. I wouldn't call them all fairytales though. Some are fairytale-like, some just have interesting magical elements, some remind me of Angela Carter's short stories. I really enjoyed this collection! The author has quite an imagination.