76 pages // Released March 31st 2021
 
From dogs to curlews, sheep to people, the animals we live with tell us much about ourselves. In these stories, set in the bleak and eerie landscape of the Yorkshire Pennines, domestic struggles collide with the wild as humans fight for control - often making a bargain with the devil. These stories are well  written, with an elegant style. The characters are believable and fully formed, as Hildyard inhabits the different voices throughout.
 
Rosanna Hildyard is an editor and writer from North Yorkshire. She is a Barbican Young Poet and an alumnus of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Her poetry has recently been published in PERVERSE, Banshee and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Benedict Kiely Award, come second in the Brick Lane Short Story Prize, and her short story collection, Slaughter, was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2021.