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A review by mwx1010
Fen by Daisy Johnson
4.0
Fen by Daisy Johnson is a wonderful collection of short stories. Set in the Fen-lands of East Anglia it’s a collection with a number of repeating themes - desire, pregnancy, loss and longing.
I didn’t grow up in the fens but near enough to them that I know them well. Johnson captures the feeling of the place, and infuses it with a kind of East Anglian magic realism which she handles extremely well. I read this on the back of reading the excellent Everything Under last year. This isn’t quite as strong, but is definitely worth (re)reading.
I didn’t grow up in the fens but near enough to them that I know them well. Johnson captures the feeling of the place, and infuses it with a kind of East Anglian magic realism which she handles extremely well. I read this on the back of reading the excellent Everything Under last year. This isn’t quite as strong, but is definitely worth (re)reading.