Connective Tissue

By Jane Fraser

This collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at them. There are those who travel in a continuous loop on London's underground and those who dance at night with the departed. A woman confronts herself in a bedroom mirror after decades of denial and a widow finds comfort in an osteopath's consulting room. And then there is a strange creature who falls to earth; dreams and portents; crows and folklore, and much more.
The stories are tragic and comi-tragic, but all reveal the strength and complexity of the human spirit. They bring poignant insights on grief, loss and longing and the depths and strangeness of the human psyche and how we manage to survive and just about cope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Salt
• Release date: Oct 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781784632533

Jane Fraser

Jane Fraser lives, works and writes in the Gower peninsula. Her debut collection of short fiction The South Westerlies was published by Salt in 2019. In 2017 she was a finalist in the Manchester Fiction Prize and she is a Hay Writer at Work. Advent is her first novel.

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