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'Joyously diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame, each one asking how far the bounds of the human form can be... Read More
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A collection of brilliantly strange and uniquely captivating literary horror stories from a thrilling new Irish talent

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'Joyously diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA
'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY
'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA

Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame, each one asking how far the bounds of the human form can be pushed, stretched - and subverted. A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to 'purify' her mind, body and soul.

Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating traverses a realm both dreamlike and nightmarish, exposing - to the bone - the absurdities and horrors of the feminine experience. Oddbody prods a finger at societal norms, gleefully turns familiar tropes on their head and announces Keating as an audacious new voice in Irish fiction.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837265299

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 218g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She studied on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. She is a winner of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now prize and the Ted and Mary O'Regan Arts Bursary. She has been published in the Stinging Fly, Apex Magazine, Banshee and Southword. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council.

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