Under a Fur Coat
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Pub Date Mar 23 2027 | Archive Date Mar 1 2027
House of Anansi Press Inc. | Spiderline
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Description
Vivienne, a photographer from Manchester, arrives at a boarding house on a tiny Finnish island hoping to rekindle her creativity and heal her broken heart. Instead, she misses her wife. Her camera hangs at her side unused. And her fellow guests keep inviting her into the forest.
Vivienne quickly grows close with Ilya, the affable caretaker, and Gagarin, a rebellious mycologist. And when Gagarin confesses she's searching for a mythical bracket fungus—the Bigfoot of mushrooms—Vivienne throws herself headfirst into the cause.
The days pass in a blur of snow and birch trees and vodka. Yet the longer Vivienne spends in the forest, the more it consumes her. Haunted by lost time, inexplicable acts of violence, and rising tensions among the guests, Vivienne begins to suspect there's something darker behind Gagarin's determination.
Because ambition always requires sacrifice. She's just not sure whose...
Advance Praise
“Surreal, sharp and deeply moving, Under a Fur Coat is a novel of outstanding reach and polish. A distinct and dazzling new gothic.”
―Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rites
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“I loved this freaky book. Under a Fur Coat is a trippy vodka-soaked nightmare of a novel laced with creeping isolation, spores of strange behaviour and a mycelium of dread. Sonya Vatomsky is the fly agaric of writers: unmissable, hallucinogenic and deadly.”
―Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
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“A visceral, all-consuming obsession that will haunt you long after the final page. You will gulp it down and enjoy the hallucination.”
―Charlotte Paradise, author of Overspill
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“Under a Fur Coat is a fever dream of a novel, as disorientating and potent and sharp as the liquorice vodka that fuels it. I was entranced by the stark, punishing landscape, the claustrophobic, sweat-soaked interior, the friendships and kinships alternately sinister and sweet that rise and subside. Mesmerising, poetic and deeply feral, this will haunt me like a half-remembered fairytale.”
—Emma van Straaten, author of Creep and This Immaculate Body
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“Steeped in folkloric mystery and longing, this is a book pulled directly from the earth. I loved it.”
―Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781487014766 |
| PRICE | $21.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |